Abermagwr Sawmill

Cadw's description

Location

Situated on W side of main road at Abermagwr.

History

Mid to later C19 sawmill, formerly the estate sawmill for Trawsgoed, with waterwheel dated 1868.

Exterior

Sawmill, rubble stone and timber with corrugated iron hipped roof. Long 2-storey range, essentially an open ground floor with stone corner piers and loft floor above. Rubble stone infill to most of N wall with outside water-wheel in open-fronted stone-ended lean-to. Large cast-iron wheel in wheel-pit, with iron spokes, rim marked Davies & Durie Aberystwyth 1868. Left wall of lean-to pierced for a timber launder. To right of lean-to is an open bay with C20 timber steps up to loft door, timber lintel below over boarded-in ground floor bay. W end has corner piers, open ground floor, boarded above, abutted by c2000 open barn. S side also with added open lean-to has loft supported on 2 (originally 3) cast iron columns with iron lintels, open upper floor. E end has C20 boarding to loft with fixed 8-pane window, ground floor small boarded lean-to to left, window and door to right. one iron column carrying iron lintel.

Interior

Open ground floor with belt-driven circular saws, iron axial lintel back from E end to iron column.

Reason for designation

Included as remarkably complete survival of a C19 water-powered sawmill.