Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
29/12/1994
Date of Amendment
29/12/1994
Name of Property
Wern Outfall Weir, Wern Mill
History
Over flow weir for surplus water from the Montgomeryshire Canal, S of Burgedin Lock, located between the NE side of the canal. Before 1797 for the Montgomeryshire Canal Co. John Dadford, Engineer.
Exterior
Oval red and blue brick revetted pond receiving culverted water from the canal, with weir and spillway with central flume controlled by ratchet paddle, leading to the turbine race ending in a 3.6m deep vertical fall shaft of the former corn mill. Alongside, a subsidiary spillway and a 450m parabolic blue by-pass channel.
Reason for designation
One of a number of canal structures on the Montgomeryshire Canal at Wern Mill of forming a group of special interest.
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