Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhosgoch Mill
Painscastle, Powys, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rhosgoch, Painscastle, Powys, designated on 18 September 1960.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 18 September 1960
- Locality
- Rhosgoch
- Community
- Painscastle
- Unitary authority
- Powys
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.12000, -3.19075
- Cadw reference
- 8737
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 197 Hay (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the south side of Rhosgoch to Llandeilo Graban road at the west end of Rhosgoch village.
History
Probably C18? One of the last Radnorshire mills to keep working, though stopped in 1950's. Combined mill and millhouse.
Exterior
Two storeys, rubble stone, stone tile roof. Believed to retain all the machinery still. Iron over-shot wheel fed from pond, iron pit-wheel wallower, spur and crown wheel, wooden axle and upright shaft. Two pairs of French burr millstones. Interior not accessible (1993).
Reason for designation
An unusually well-preserved watermill with its machinery intact.
Nearby in the register
- Hermon Congregational ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Lane Farm Round BarrowRound Barrowunder 1 mi
- PortwayDomesticunder 1 mi
- Barn Range at the Great HouseAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.