Ynys Pandy felin lechi is a Grade II* listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1999. Industrial mill.
Ynys Pandy felin lechi
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-screen-thistle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1999
- Type
- Industrial mill
- Address
- Ynys Pandy felin lechi, Cwmystradllyn, Dolbenmaen, Gwynedd
- OS grid reference
- SH 549 433
- Coordinates
- 52.96798, -4.16072
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Ynys Pandy felin lechi is a building constructed from uncoursed but carefully jointed stone rubble, originally featuring a slate roof that was removed in 1906. It is situated on an artificial platform supported by retaining walls and consists of three storeys, increasing to four at the western end. The structure is rectangular, measuring four bays wide and nine bays long. Each bay has large semi-circular headed arches made of dressed voussoirs with keystones on the exterior, and the walls taper in thickness at each floor level to accommodate the Baltic pine floor joists, which are now missing. The eastern gable has a decorative feature around the top window.
A raised curving formation carries the original tramway to the central opening on the southern side, while incoming water flowed parallel to and outside the southern face of the building, reaching the entry point at the center. Rubbish was removed from the northern side via another tramway with a gauge of 2 feet (60.96 cm), which tipped to the northeast of the mill.
Details about the internal workings of the mill are not fully known, but it seems there was a logical progression for processing materials down through the mill. A deep cross trench at the center housed the leet that powered the main drive water wheel, with water being channeled in from the parallel channel on the southern side.
Local climate
Ynys Pandy felin lechi sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,550 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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