Site Record

Melin Trygarn is named as a working corn mill on all three editions of the 25-inch O. S. map. The south east side of the two-storey building was built into the valley side. The north-east gable of the rectangular building has collapsed and the roof has fallen whilst retaining its structure; most of the upper floor has collapsed.
Above and to the south of the mill there is a carefully walled millpond, dry but in good condition. A carefully constructed leat led to a wooden launder, which has disappeared, over the overshot wheel on the south west gable. The wheel is 17ft (5.2 metres) in diameter and 34 inches (0.86metres) wide; there are no buckets but the shouds are intact though leaning over as many of the wooden spokes have rotted away. The 7-inch (18 centimetres) square cast iron axle carried a cast iron pitwheel which originally drove only one pair of stones, but a horizontal drive and second, smaller pair of bevel gears has been added to drive a second pair. The stone nuts have wooden teeth. The two pairs of monolithic stones are still in situ on the hurst frame, the only part of the upper floor remaining.
A separate building to the east housed a drying kiln, with ceramic kiln tiles carried on slate beams over a hopper structure formed of heavy stone slabs.
W J Crompton, RCAHMW, 12 August 2010.