Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wheel-Pit and Water-Wheel at Llanerchaeron (Previously listed as sited at Llanaeron)
Ciliau Aeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 15 November 1990
- Locality
- Llanerchaeron
- Community
- Ciliau Aeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.21883, -4.22407
- Cadw reference
- 10727
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 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at NE angle of Home Farm complex, some 60 m NE of barn.
History
Pit sunk 1849 and first wheel fitted 1852. Present water-wheel dates from 1906 and was made at the Eagle Foundry, Aberystwyth. The wheel is of overshot type, powered via underground pipes from the ornamental pond to SE of walled garden. Via underground shafting, the wheel drove machinery and hoists in the Home Farm and in the early C20, powered electricity for the house, through a battery house set up in the stable-block.
Exterior
Large stone-lined wheel-pit with big overshot cast-iron wheel.
Reason for designation
Included for group value as part of the whole complex of agricultural buildings at Llanerchaeron
Nearby in the register
- Outbuilding some 30m NE of large barn at LlanerchaeronAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Carpenter's Shop at Llanerchaeron (previously listed as sited at Llanaeron Home Farm)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Barn at Llanerchaeron (Previously lised as sited at Llanaeron Home Farm)Agriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Former Kennels at Llanerchaeron (previously listed as sited at Llanaeron Home Farm)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.