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
16990
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/11/1995  
Date of Amendment
29/11/1995  
Name of Property
Abergwenlais outbuildings  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Carmarthenshire  
Community
Cilycwm  
Town
 
Locality
Abergwenlais  
Easting
275910  
Northing
238997  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated about 1km SSE of Cilycwm, approached by lane running E of road to Cilycwm some 500m N of Pont Newydd.  

Description


Broad Class
Agriculture and Subsistence  
Period
 

History
Later C18 to earlier C19 mill, house, and outbuildings on the Gwenlais river just above confluence with Towy. On the 1845 Tithe Map the mill is shown without the house and outbuildings, it was then owned by the Rev Daniel Prytherch Price of Abergwenlais. The mill has heavy cornerstones and could be late C18, though probably altered in C19, the house was probably added in mid C19 and the outbuildings in later C19. The Abergwenlais estate was sold to W. Campbell-Davys of Neuadd Fawr in 1856. The mill leat was ruined by flood in earlier C20 and mill was afterwards disused.  

Exterior
Outbuildings butt up to mill lean-to. Barn facing NE with single centre high door and stone voussoirs, loop each side and door to left with stone voussoirs, in angle to a short return range, facing NW, that appears to have been built first (cf rounded NW corner now within). One loft light under eaves, door to ground floor left and loop in angle to right. Plain stone rear with outshut. Rear of barn has one door with stone voussoirs to left.  

Interior
Mill ground floor has three heavy beams. Pine first floor beams. Fine roof trusses of arch-braced collar trusses with diagonal struts above collar. Bolted joints. In roof, massive timber horizontal shaft for hoist. Barn has later C19 roof with stapled collars, four bays.  

Reason for designation
A good mill group, with unusual roof structure to mill.  

Group Description
Abergwenlais Mill, House and Outbuildings Whitewashed rubble stone with slate roofs. Three ranges joined in roughly L-plan. Two-storey house at N, taller mill at angle to left and outbuildings running E.  

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