NPRN24716
Map ReferenceSN34NW
Grid ReferenceSN3456048048
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCeredigion
Old CountyCardiganshire
CommunityTroedyraur
Type Of SiteCORN MILL
PeriodPost Medieval, 18th Century
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Description
Felin Cwm is an eighteenth and nineteenth century, stone-built corn mill, retaining much of its machinery set in a pine frame. It had an 11ft 6in diameter overshot wheel (removed by 2002) driving two pairs of stones, one Anglesey granite, one French burr. The water wheel was set on an iron axle with an internal cast-iron pit-wheel with wooden teeth. The pit wheel meshed with a cast-iron bevel-toothed wallower on a vertical timber shaft. Set above the wallower, a cast iron great spur-wheel with wooden teeth engaged with two cast-iron stone nuts, driving the millstones from below. There are remains of a rope-driven sack-hoist, driven from a pinion on the great spur-wheel.
The original roof line and a blocked window opening in the southwest gable-end indicate that the roof has been raised in the mid to late nineteenth century to provide an attic over the first floor; updating of the machinery, including installation of an iron waterwheel axle and iron buckets to the wheel replacing earlier wooden items, probably dates from this period.
The mill was noted as disused in 01 May 2002; it was subsequently demolished (noted 08 June 2013), although the machinery survives.
B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 08 June 2013.