Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chimney of former Clearwater Mill
Trellech United, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Whitebrook, Monmouth, Trellech United, Monmouthshire, designated on 28 February 2001.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 February 2001
- Locality
- Whitebrook
- Town
- Monmouth
- Community
- Trellech United
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.75736, -2.68028
- Cadw reference
- 24923
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)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV.Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. a. England ab sich: Shire:15-17, 33 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 233 Monmouth (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the north side of the Whitebrook valley road and about 350m west of the Church of the Holy Trinity.
History
Chimney built as a part of the introduction of steam power to the adjacent Clearwater Mill (now ruins). This mill was built c1760, it was the first paper mill in the Whitebrook valley and was worked for over a hundred years. 'A steam engine and a 60" wide paper machine were installed by 1863....and it seems that this machine was replaced by one 78" wide by 1869. In addition to the steam engine there was an overshot water wheel and a 70HP water turbine.' (Coates) Part of the turbine pipe survives in the road wall opposite the mill site. The mill had closed by 1875.
Exterior
Neatly built chimney of squared and coursed rock faced sansdstone conglomerate rubble. Square base about 2.5m in height with cornice and then tapering to a circular stack, about 10m in all. The top is hidden by a growth of ivy but it appears complete.
Reason for designation
Included as a well preserved mill chimney of the1860s, an important surviving relic of the Whitebrook valley paper industry.
Nearby in the register
- Clearwater Paper MillMillunder 1 mi
- Clearwater HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Cider Mill at Fern BankInstitutionalunder 1 mi
- Whitebrook Wireworks LeatLeatunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.