Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chestnut Mills
Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 13 January 1993
- Locality
- Capel Dewi
- Community
- Llandysul
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.05567, -4.26367
- Cadw reference
- 10588
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on Afon Clettwr approached by steep track from B4459 some 0.5km S of Capel Dewi.
History
Marked on 1891 Ordnance Survey. Owned 1899 by Thomas Williams.
Exterior
Circa 1885 woollen mill in rubble stone with slate roof and N end stack. Three-storey 8-window side to river with 12-pane fixed-light windows. Stone voussoirs to lower 2 floors, timber lintels to top floor. Door in seventh bay of ground floor. Added brick workshop against eighth bay. S end has big overshot waterwheel marked Thomas Jones Priory Foundry Carmarthen. N end has basement door, first-floor door (at ground level due to embanked ground), 12-pane window above and 2 attic 9-pane windows.
Rear elevation is masked by c1930 parallel range added when mill was used as a creamery. Red brick with concrete loading platform.
Reason for designation
Important survivor of the late C19 woollen industry in South Cardiganshire, still with water wheel.
Nearby in the register
- Rock MillsIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Lychgate to Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of St DavidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The Old Post OfficeCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.