Pant-yr-Ynn Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 January 1974. Mill.

Pant-yr-Ynn Mill

WRENN ID
ghost-string-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 January 1974
Type
Mill
Address
Pant-yr-Ynn Mill, Bethania, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 708 453
Coordinates
52.99018, -3.92513
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Pant-yr-Ynn Mill is a single-storey rubble building featuring a large waterwheel on the south side and a later two-storey addition to the north. The mill has modern slate roofs, which include a continuous skylight over the mill section and oversailing eaves. The west side of the mill has five large 30-pane windows, two of which are modern replacements. The east side is partly built against a hill, with a reduced entrance towards the south that features a chamfered 19th-century doorcase and a boarded door, topped by a large slate-stone lintel. There are two further blocked entrances to the right. A small slate-flagged yard is located at the northern part of the building. The original arched entrance to the north gable is still visible from the inside, although it is now concealed externally by the addition. This addition includes a stepped-up first-floor catslide bay with continuous modern glazing, modern multi-pane windows, and plain bargeboards on the gable end, which also has boarded entrance doors.

The external overshot waterwheel, measuring 7 meters in diameter, is powered by the Afon Du and is fed via a raised leat supported by a slightly tapering rubble pier; both the wheel and leat have been restored.

Inside the mill section, there is a suspended and boarded 19th-century pine floor. The roof consists of four bays with king-post trusses dating from around 1881. This roof supports the complete original overhead transmission shafting mechanism, which includes 16 separate wheels that were previously used to drive the machinery with belts.

Local climate

Pant-yr-Ynn Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,370 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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