Felin Cochwillan

Felin Cochwillan is a 3-storey, long rectangular building aligned roughly north-south, dating from the 18th century. A single-storey range projects at right angles to the east at the north end, and a lean-to addition, housing a corn-drying kiln, is set against the south gable. The building is constructed of roughly coursed rubblestone, with voussoirs to the segmental-headed ground-floor openings in the long walls, and slate lintels elsewhere; all windows have slate sills. Slate roofs cover the main building. The long walls are arranged in five symmetrical bays, with a main entrance on the east side through central boarded double doors with glazed panels and a rectangular overlight. Above the doors is a gated boarded door with a pulley for a hoist. To the left of the entrance are two horizontal sliding sash windows on each floor – 12-paned on the first floor and 16-paned on the ground floor - with a matching window on each floor to the right. To the right of these is the projecting gabled range, featuring a central boarded door and a large two-light window at the angle with the main range on its south side. There is an integral end stack with a red brick shaft. The main range's roof has three small, two-light, eight-paned gabled dormers with miniature king-post trusses to bracketed gables, alternating with two triangular vents. A rooflight and a purple brick ridge stack with a rendered base are positioned to the left of the right-hand dormer. The west wall mirrors the east wall's window arrangement, except where it is disrupted by a water wheel to the south. This accounts for the absence of a ground-floor window in the southern bay, and the presence of a small 18-paned window in two lights immediately above the wheel. Two triangular vents are located in the roof slope. The water wheel is of the undershot type, with wooden spokes and iron-rimmed wooden paddles, and is fed by a raised, slate slab-lined water channel leading from a mill race to the south. A two-storey lean-to grain drying shed is situated on the south gable end. The north gable end of the main range has the same window arrangement as the long walls, with two windows on the ground and first floors and one window on the second floor. A boarded door is situated under a bracketed lean-to hood on the left of the left-hand ground-floor window. The house occupies the northern bay and the single-storey wing. The mill appears to retain all its machinery substantially intact, including four sets of stones. The drying kiln within the lean-to addition is well-preserved, featuring slate-slab construction, a square-section kiln, and a perforated tiled drying floor above.