Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Windmill Tower to W of Llancayo House
Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Llancayo, Usk, Llanarth, Monmouthshire, designated on 24 September 1985.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 24 September 1985
- Locality
- Llancayo
- Town
- Usk
- Community
- Llanarth
- Unitary authority
- Monmouthshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.72232, -2.91994
- Cadw reference
- 2775
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)
- 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)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated in field some 200m NW of Llancayo Farm, W of road to Usk.
History
Very large early C19 windmill tower, more than 15 metres high, built before 1813 as marked on 1813 sketch maps for O.S. Erected for Edward Berry of Llancayo who died in 1818. In 1819 it was described as a noble windmill recently erected capable of grinding 100 sacks of flour weekly. It seems to have burnt down about 1825 and was marked as ruined on C. & J. Greenwood's map of 1830. Marked in outline only on 1842 Tithe Map.
Exterior
Prominent tapering conical tower with attached roofless mill building to N. Rubble stone, originally rendered, roofless with eroded wall-head, two projecting stringcourses, and coursed rubble plinth. Stone voussoirs to cambered openings (frames missing), brickwork to inner soffits and other dressings. Four apparent floor levels.
Three door openings above ground level and four square windows breaking lower string course. Round arched low opening to left of NNW door, possibly for drive to attached mill. Put-log holes (with remains of projecting timbers) under first floor sill-course. First floor narrow long openings over NNW and SSE doors and 4 square windows over the ground floor windows. Second floor has just 4 similar windows, also aligned. Next level has just 2 windows NNW and SSE as does the level above.
Ruinous buildings to N connected by walls. To NW a gabled structure with brick cambered-arched entry at S end, loft light over and window each floor at N. To NE a sunken pit with walling to E and N, basement and ground floor openings to N.
Interior
Tall tapering interior with joist holes for missing floors.
Reason for designation
Listed as a prominent early C19 windmill tower, a significant landmark and survival of the early C19 agricultural improvements on the Llancayo Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Mill building at Lower Llancayo FarmAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Barn at Lower LlancayoAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Lower Llancayo Farm and attached outbuildingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llancayo HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.