Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
10727
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/11/1990
Date of Amendment
23/05/1996
Name of Property
Wheel-Pit and Water-Wheel at Llanerchaeron (Previously listed as sited at Llanaeron)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Ciliau Aeron
Town
Locality
Llanerchaeron
Easting
248164
Northing
260178
Street Side
Location
Situated at NE angle of Home Farm complex, some 60 m NE of barn.
Description
Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Period
History
Pit sunk 1849 and first wheel fitted 1852. Present water-wheel dates from 1906 and was made at the Eagle Foundry, Aberystwyth. The wheel is of overshot type, powered via underground pipes from the ornamental pond to SE of walled garden. Via underground shafting, the wheel drove machinery and hoists in the Home Farm and in the early C20, powered electricity for the house, through a battery house set up in the stable-block.
Exterior
Large stone-lined wheel-pit with big overshot cast-iron wheel.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the whole complex of agricultural buildings at Llanerchaeron
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