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
18885
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
19/09/1997
Date of Amendment
19/09/1997
Name of Property
Ceulan Mills
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Ceredigion
Community
Ceulanamaesmawr
Town
Aberystwyth
Locality
Talybont
Easting
265584
Northing
289413
Street Side
E
Location
Situated behind houses on main road, on W bank of Ceulan, approached through grounds of Glenydd and Wern.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Later C19 woollen mill. Water-wheel dated 1891 on water-wheel. A Pelton wheel added later. The mill provided electricity for Talybont in earlier C20. Said to have been in operation from 1860-1962, owned throughout by the Morgan family.
Exterior
Rubble stone with slate roof. Two-storey, seven-window range, windows with thin slate sills, brick heads and simple vertical glazing bars to fixed-lights, 3-light and some 4-light. E front has door with 8-pane overlight in left bay and altered opening with timber lintel in fourth bay. S end wall has exceptionally large (7.7 m diameter) iron breastshot waterwheel, the iron hub marked 'J. Edgar, Dublin', the iron rim 'Griffith Ellis & Co 1891 Aberystwyth'. Two first floor windows and one apex window.
Rear has seven bays, outside steps to first floor right door. Door in ground floor third bay from left. N end has late C19 or early C20 cast-iron Pelton wheel, worked from underground leat. First floor windows above.
Interior
Interior not inspected, said to have complete surviving late C19 or early C20 machinery, carding engines, looms warping frame etc on ground floor, two spinning mules on first floor.
Reason for designation
A rare surviving example of a late C19 rural textile factory, of special interest for the late use of water power, and as a comprehensive mill carrying out all processes of woollen production.
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