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Loading Bay and Weighhouse at Cil-cewydd Corn Mill
Forden with Leighton and Trelystan, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Date of designation
- 20 March 1998
- Locality
- Cil-cewydd
- Community
- Forden with Leighton and Trelystan
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.62894, -3.14087
- Cadw reference
- 19559
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
At Cil-cewydd mill, the Loading Bay building stands on the E side of the service yard on the E side of the mill, partly built into the bank.
History
The main corn mill for the Leighton Estate; John Naylor, a Liverpool banker, had aquired the Leighton Estate in 1846-47 and embarked on an ambitious programme of building, notably Leighton Hall, church and Leighton Farm. The Estate was extended and improved until Naylor's death in 1889, becoming a remarkable example of high-Victorian estate development. The mill was the main corn mill for the Leighton Estate, and was built for John Naylor in 2 phases, 1862 and 1868. This building for loading and off-loading grain probably dates from the initial build of 1862.
Exterior
Built of red brick in Flemish bond founded on a chamfered stone plinth, with rock-faced and margin dressed stone quoins and dressings. Slate roof. Two tall storeys. The NE gable has 16-pane sash windows on the ground floor, with stone lintels and sills, the upper floor sashes having round arched heads with rock-faced stone springers and keystones. Wide open eaves. The stone plinth is extended to the SW as a loading platform, with doors on each floor of the gable end above, and a projecting wooden hoist arm in the gable, all now altered and having an attached wooden shed built on the platform. At the centre of the W side, facing the mill there is a wide and high top-hung service door, opening under a large hipped and slated roof of 4 bays, supported on chamfered timber cantilever beams, to provide cover for loading operations, the slate soffit fully torched.
Interior
The intermediate floor is missing and is now open to the trussed roof of 4 bays.
Reason for designation
The Leighton Estate is an exceptional example of high-Victorian estate development. It is remarkable for the size and ambition of its conception and planning, the consistency of its design, the extent of its survival, and is the most complete example of its type in Wales. Cil-cewydd Mill is an important industrial complex at the heart of the economic development of the estate, and the loading bay and weighhouse is included as a key building in this well-articulated major corn-mill complex.
Nearby in the register
- Cil-cewydd Corn MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Outbuilding at Cil-cewydd MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Mill Office at Cil-cewydd MillAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Workman's HutAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.