Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Brick Sheds of former Paper Mill at Usk Vale Mill
The Vale of Grwyney, Powys, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 November 1998
- Locality
- Glangrwyne
- Community
- The Vale of Grwyney
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.83808, -3.10521
- Cadw reference
- 20852
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
Immediately S of former mill and on W side of entrance to Lower Mill House.
History
Late C19 or early C20, and part of the expansion of Usk Paper Mills after their acquisition by Beckwith & Co in 1888. The mill closed c1940 and is now an agricultural vehicle repair shop. The sheds were probably built originally for vehicle storage.
Exterior
Consisting of 5 unequal bays facing a yard to N, of brick with corrugated iron roofs (the 2nd bay from the L end has a partially collapsed roof). The bay on R (W) side is wider, the 2 bays to L (E) have asymmetrical gables. The bay at the R end has a sliding boarded door, L of which the bay has a wide opening and a boarded gable. The central bay has a boarded gable, L of which is a short link to the two L bays, which have double boarded doors under wooden lintels. The L end bay has a pivoting window above the doorway, and a small lean-to with boarded door in the L side wall.
The rear is obscured by vegetation.
Interior
Not inspected at time of survey (February 1998).
Reason for designation
Included for group value with the former Glangrwyne Paper Mill, a rare survival of a specialised building type.
Nearby in the register
- Former Paper Mill at Usk Vale MillCommercialunder 1 mi
- Forge HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bell HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- White HallDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.