Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Corn drying house at Felin Gafnan
Cylch-y-Garn, Isle of Anglesey, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cemlyn, Cylch-y-Garn, Isle of Anglesey, designated on 27 November 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 27 November 2000
- Locality
- Cemlyn
- Community
- Cylch-y-Garn
- Unitary authority
- Isle of Anglesey
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.41045, -4.49314
- Cadw reference
- 24417
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 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 93 Holyhead (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1919 · Sheet 41. Anglesey. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
In an isolated rural location near the coast at Porth y Felin. Set back from the N side of the country road running along the N coast of the island at Cemlyn Bay. The drying house is located c100m SW of the mill, opposite the house.
History
Late C18 former drying house serving the nearby watermill. There are no buildings recorded at Felin Cafnan on the Tithe Map of the parish of Llanrhywydrys, 1840. The map is poorly annotated, however, and not all the buildings are shown and none of the agricultural buildings are recorded. The Tithe Schedule shows that the mill was owned by Lord Dinorben and the miller was Robert Owen; in the 1841 Census Returns he is recorded as being assisted by a labourer and also had a female servant. The drying floor and kiln tiles have been removed from the building.
Exterior
Lofted drying house with dormer doorway. Rubble walls and roof of small slates, partly grouted. Stone staircase to front elevation, which is also designed to form a porch for the doorway into the ground floor storage area. The boarded loft door to the R rises above the eaves, and has a gabled dormer roof. Lean-to either end with corrugated iron roofs.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good C18 corn drying house, which retains much vernacular character, and for group value with the nearby miller's house, and corn mill.
Nearby in the register
- Mill house at Felin GafnanDomesticunder 1 mi
- Corn Mill at Felin GafnanIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Farmhouse at Plas Cemlyn with curved walling to north and wall incorporating goose pens to southDomesticunder 1 mi
- Old farmhouse at Plas CemlynDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.