Melin-y-wern

Melin-y-wern is a 3-storey, 3-window former mill built against a steep bank. It is constructed of rubble stone with larger quoins and features a slate roof. The windows have been renewed in earlier openings, except for the middle and upper storeys on the left side, which have been converted from former doorways. The lower storey has stone segmental-headed openings with a doorway on the left, while the middle storey openings are under wooden lintels. The upper storey openings are beneath the eaves, except on the left side where the original doorway has been converted into a dormer window.

On the right gable end, there is a late 19th-century high-breast-shot waterwheel made of cast iron with wooden radial arms (partly renewed) and wrought iron buckets and sole plate. The waterwheel is fed by an iron sluice box with a control lever, which stands on a high rubble stone wall at the rear of the mill. The tail race is not visible.

Set back against the left gable end, where the ground level is higher, is an added single-storey, 2-window wing that is level with the middle storey of the mill. The windows in this wing, with the left-hand window converted from a doorway, have rock-faced stone lintels, and there is a window in the gable end that has been renewed with a late 19th-century brick segmental head. A lean-to has been added behind this projection. The rear of the mill, where the ground level is higher, is only 2 storeys tall. The outline walls of a former attached drying kiln are still visible. The rear wall of the mill features an inserted window in the upper right, an external stack on the left side, and an added external brick stack on the right.

The mill machinery has been removed, and in the lower storey, there is a blocked doorway in the rear wall that once led up former steps to the kiln, which are now infilled.