Trericket Mill

An early 19th-century water mill and mill-house, with extensions from the later 19th century. Formerly part of the Glanusk estate and later belonging to the Llangoed estate, the building is constructed mainly of red brick with slate roofs. The symmetrical, five-bay front features a brick dentilled cornice and a gable over a pointed-arched loft door, with camber headed loft doors and a main entrance below. Small-pane casement windows have voussoirs; the upper halves of the windows on the right side of the second floor have larger panes. An off-centre red brick chimney stack is present. A lean-to rubble Turbine House is set back at the right end, featuring a three-light window to its gable. The left-hand rear of the mill shows rubble construction up to the first floor sill level, potentially representing an earlier mill building incorporated within the 19th-century structure. A modern lean-to on the rear of the mill house contains a cellar.

The mill is notable for retaining a substantial amount of original machinery. The top floor features a timber sack hoist with a lever for adjusting tension on the gable end pulley, along with original purlined roof trusses. The stone floor retains grain chutes, horses, and stones, including one French stone and one made from Forest of Dean conglomerate, alongside an encased wire machine and a dresser. A timber cogged iron crown wheel with a subsidiary drive to a pulley on the rear wall is also present. The original power source was an overshot wheel, which, along with the pit wheel, was removed following the installation of a turbine manufactured by Green and Carter, Vulcan Iron Works, of Winchester. Later machinery was introduced to adjust the pitch of the bearing blades. A thick dividing wall separates the mill and mill house, which retains some original fireplaces on the first floor and a pegged king-post roof. A brick vaulted cellar, which is largely above ground, is located at the rear. The building is designated Grade II* for the significance of the original machinery that remains within its interior.