Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Abermagwr Sawmill
Trawsgoed, Ceredigion, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Abermagwr, Aberystwyth, Trawsgoed, Ceredigion, designated on 31 March 2004.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2004
- Locality
- Abermagwr
- Town
- Aberystwyth
- Community
- Trawsgoed
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.34578, -3.96070
- Cadw reference
- 82644
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1830 map "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1899 · 178 Llanilar (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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.
Nearby in the register
- Abermagwr SawmillSaw Millunder 1 mi
- The Smithy House/ Yr Hen EfailDomesticunder 1 mi
- Abermagwr, former shop, and walls with railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- Gatepiers and low walls to main entrance to Trawsgoed HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.