Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Furnace Mill
Eglwysbach, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 23 June 1967
- Locality
- Bodnant Gardens
- Community
- Eglwysbach
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.23301, -3.80285
- Cadw reference
- 83
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the eastern bank of the Afon Hiraethllyn, within The Dell, some 200m SW of Bodnant House; set against the slope of a hill.
Exterior
Estate flour mill built in simple Italianate classical style in 1837. 5-bay, storeyed symmetrical building with central entrance; of rubble with sandstone dressings and a shallow, hipped slate roof, deep eaves. Arched openings to the ground floor with projecting springing and keystones; recessed dressed voussoirs beneath arch-rings. Recessed, boarded and studded door via 3 slate steps; 36-pane iron-framed square windows with blind tympana and projecting cills. Segmental heads to upper windows as before; 30-pane iron-framed windows. Entrance as before to L side with stepped access alongside retaining wall beyond, giving upper access at rear.
Interior
The interior was not inspected during the survey (May 1996).
Reason for designation
A well-conceived C19 mill building of simple elegance.
Nearby in the register
- The Pin MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Semi-circular Walls and Steps leading to Canal TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and Steps retaining Croquet Terrace, with Enclosing Walls and Arches N and S of Lily TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
- Walls and Steps retaining Upper (house) Terrace and retaining Walls and Steps to Rose TerraceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.