Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St-y-Nyll windmill tower and attached barn remains
St. Georges-super-Ely, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 2 July 1986
- Locality
- St Bride's-super-Ely
- Community
- St. Georges-super-Ely
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.49618, -3.29910
- Cadw reference
- 13419
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On the hilltop E of St-y-Nyll farm and chapel remains with the main A4232 now fairly close to E, reached by footpath across fields.
History
Built between 1790 and 1820. In poor condition when listed in 1986, since when the central section of the S barn frontage containing door, window and oculus has collapsed.
Exterior
Windmill tower and attached range to E. Tall (13m), tapering, circular windmill tower partly clad in ivy. Coursed limestone blocks (partly rendered to N side) of 4/5 storeys; floors and cap with sails and other machinery all gone. Plain window and door openings with deep reveals and formerly timber lintels, some ironwork supports for external gallery remain halfway up.
Attached on E side are ruinous rubble walls of rectangular threshing and winnowing barn. Remains of 2-storey, 3-bay S elevation with semi-circular arched heads to surviving openings including lunette. Dressed voussoirs, square opening for drive machinery links through the adjoining walls.
Reason for designation
Listed mainly for its historic interest as a surviving windmill tower and for its prominent position as a landmark.
Nearby in the register
- St-y-Nyll Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- St-y-NyllDomesticunder 1 mi
- Church of St FfraidReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Upper Stockland FarmhouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.