Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Manorbier Mill
Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Manorbier Castle, Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, designated on 12 March 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 12 March 1996
- Locality
- Manorbier Castle
- Community
- Manorbier
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64501, -4.80158
- Cadw reference
- 18014
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 245 Pembroke (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
100 m W of Manorbier Castle, in a side lane off the road leading to the beach.
History
A small corn mill, now roofless but with its masonry restored. It stands against an earth dam which formerly impounded the stream coming from the N side of the Castle. The dam is now breached and the stream diverted away from the mill.
The building contains no dateable features, but a mill is mentioned in 1669. On the 1864 OS map it is marked as a grist mill.
Exterior
The mill is about 10.5m long by 4.5m wide internally, with external walls of local limestone rubble about 1.1m thick. Its ends are gabled. There is a later lean-to store room to the S. At the W end is the wheel pit, 2.4m by 4.5m, the wheel in which is thought to have been overshot. It was fed by a launder through the N wall. There is a large opening for tail water o the opposite side below. The milling floor is 7.5m by 4.5m and probably contained 2 stones, but fragments of only one are reported.
The building is preserved as a ruin.
Reason for designation
Listed as a probable manorial mill and for group value with Manorbier Castle.
Nearby in the register
- DovecoteDomesticunder 1 mi
- Manorbier Dovecotdovecoteunder 1 mi
- Manorbier CastleDefenceunder 1 mi
- Manorbier CastleCastleunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.