Children's Mill or Boat House is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 1998. Boathouse.

Children's Mill or Boat House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 September 1998
Type
Boathouse
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Small-scale boat house built in brick with a slate roof, tiled cresting and ventilators. It is distinctive for its use of yellow brick for banding and dressings and contrasting with the blue/red brick for the rest of the building. Appealing miniature campanile to west side with pyramidal swept roof and finial. This has small rectangular lights to each stage, louvred to top and with boarded door to south side. The gable ends of the building have scalloped bargeboards and that facing the river has circular louvred opening over a small semicircular arched aperture, with keystone, at water level. Uphill gable end has sunken entrance reached by steps down behind brick wall with stone coping.

Attached brick wall with missing coping, runs north across the stone weir to adjoin one of the sluice houses.

Interior not accessible at time of inspection.

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