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
5378
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
12/05/1970  
Date of Amendment
27/08/2002  
Name of Property
Melin Rhosfawr  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Isle of Anglesey  
Community
Llanfair-Mathafarn-Eithaf  
Town
 
Locality
Brynteg  
Easting
249684  
Northing
382868  
Street Side
NW  
Location
Set back from the NW side of the B5110 at the NE end of the village of Brynteg.  

Description


Broad Class
Industrial  
Period
 

History
Windmill tower, built in 1757. The mill is recorded in the Tithe Apportionment of the parish, 1841, as owned by John Hughes Esq and the miller is listed as Richard Owen who, according to the census returns of the same year, lived at the mill house there with his wife, 6 children and a miller's apprentice; by 1851 the mill has been taken over by Richard's son Robert. The mill is immortalised as 'Mona Mill' in George Burrow's book - Wild Wales (1862), in his search for places connected with the Anglesey poet Goronwy Owen. On his travels he met the then miller, John Jones who ran the mill until 1877 after which it was taken over by his widow, Martha, who then continued as miller until her death in 1889. It continued to operated for a number of years, run by William Jones, but was closed down in 1910, the sails and cap taken down and the machinery sold for scrap.  

Exterior
Full height windmill tower of 3-storeys. Sloping circular wall of mortared rubble masonry, partly rendered; roofless. Ground floor doorway has cambered head of voussoirs; 1st and 2nd floor window openings also have voussoirs at head.  

Interior
Interior not inspected at the time of the survey.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a substantially intact windmill tower, one of only 18 surviving on Anglesey. In early-mid C19 there were over 40 windmills operating on the island, grinding the large volumes of corn then being produced. The mill is of particular interest for its literary associations with George Burrow's book, Wild Wales.  

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