Knight's Mill

Cadw's description

Location

Isolated house approximately 200m ENE of Glanusk Bridge.

History

By Robert Lugar, and erected 1830s as part of the Glanusk Estate, next to the estate mill.

Exterior

Tudor-Gothic style cottage of one-and-a-half storeys, consisting of a main range with wing set back to R. Of rubble stone with stone tile roof and foiled barge boards. The main range has half-hipped roof to front, while wing is half-hipped to R. A stone ridge stack on wing has 3 diagonal stone shafts. To the front, the main range has a canted bay with 3-light mullioned and transomed window and a 2-light casement with hood mould above. The wing has a similar 2-light window and is beneath a canopy under catslide roof supported on 2 square timber posts. The main doorway is the side wall of the main range and has a wooden frame with Tudor-arched head, a boarded and ribbed door, and hood mould. The end wall of wing has 2-light windows under hood moulds. The L side wall of main range has a gabled projection R of centre with an inserted C20 window in lower storey and blind narrow window above. A further blocked window is set back at L end.

Interior

Not inspected at time of survey (August 1997).

Reason for designation

Listed as a well-designed mid C19 lodge and as an integral component of the surviving Glanusk Estate buildings.