Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
9720
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
04/06/1974
Date of Amendment
22/10/2003
Name of Property
Felin Wen (White Mill)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire
Community
Abergwili
Town
Locality
Whitemill
Easting
246255
Northing
221442
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the road through White Mill hamlet, opposite a junction with a minor road to Capel Gwyn.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
An early C19 mill shown on the 1840 Tithe map.
Exterior
A 2-storey corn mill with adjoining warehouse, of pebble-dashed rubble-stone walls and slate roof, hipped to the L. The mill occupies the L side. It has replaced split boarded door, and a replaced window to the L. On the R side is a replaced stair light, and in the upper storey a small vented window. On the R side the warehouse has a split boarded door, and to its R 2 replaced windows in each storey. The L end wall of the mill has a rubble-stone wheelpit and a late C19 high-breastshot waterwheel of cast iron with wrought iron buckets and sole plate, by S Kelly of Cardigan. Replaced windows have yellow-brick dressings. In the R gable end of the warehouse is an added lower projection.
The rear faces the higher ground to the road, and openings are at upper-storey level. The mill has a split boarded door to the L, a shuttered vent upper R of it below the eaves, a 2-light window further R and then a catslide-roofed outshut with boarded door in its side wall. The upper storey of the warehouse is double-fronted. The central door has tall round-headed panels, and is flanked by 2-pane sash windows with marginal glazing.
Interior
The waterwheel has been replaced by a Lister diesel engine but otherwise still turns. Machinery from the late C19 remains in use, and turns 3 pairs of stones. These include a pair of French burrs.
Reason for designation
Listed as a grade II* an exceptionally rare well-preserved corn and grist mill, retaining its original machinery.
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