Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Llwyn-ysgaw Waterwheel
Y Ferwig, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 6 March 1995
- Locality
- Llwyn-ysgaw
- Community
- Y Ferwig
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.13254, -4.60450
- Cadw reference
- 15865
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 some 4km NE of Ferwig, 1km due S of the coast at Penpel-es.
History
Wheel and pond not marked on the 1847/48 Tithe Map although the farm buildings are shown as being on both sides of the road. At this time the farm was owned by Rev. William James and occupied by Evan Davies. Restored and now owned by the National Trust.
Exterior
Later C19 iron overshot twelve foot waterwheel by T. Thomas of Cardigan in rubble stone wheel pit. Timothy Thomas was a maker of many kinds of agricultural machinery and this wheel was probably made after his move from the Mwldan Engineering Works in Cardigan to the Bridge End Foundry in the same town in 1854.
Reason for designation
Included as a rare example (in situ) of a C19 waterwheel made locally in Cardigan.
Nearby in the register
- Blaencefn ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Church of the Holy CrossReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Churchyard of the Church of the Holy CrossReligious, Ritual and Funerary1 mi
- Lime Kiln at MwntIndustrial2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.