Bont Pandy mill and mill house, formerly known as Gelli-dymyll Mill. is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 1997. Mill. 1 related planning application.

Bont Pandy mill and mill house, formerly known as Gelli-dymyll Mill.

WRENN ID
high-loggia-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 1997
Type
Mill
Address
Bont Pandy mill and mill house, formerly known as Gelli-dymyll Mill., Bont Dolgadfan, Llanbrynmair, SY19 7AP
OS grid reference
SN 885 998
Coordinates
52.58494, -3.64708
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Bont Pandy mill and mill house, formerly known as Gelli-dymyll Mill, is a three-storey structure built of rubble stone with slate roofs. There is a linking block between the mill and the house, also three storeys high, which is timber framed with five panels and brick-on-edge infilling. The ground floor on the river side features boarded doors, and there are paned timber windows throughout. The house has a gable stack at the upper end and an added stack for the workers' lodging, and it is constructed of limewashed rubble stone with slate roofs, featuring segmental headed windows and a lean-to towards the river.

The mill has a wide pit for an overshot iron waterwheel, which was removed around 1980, and it includes a stone lintelled opening at the base. Inside, a drive shaft with an approximate diameter of 200mm is supported in cast iron bearing boxes and connects to a vertical shaft supported by a heavy bridge tree. Below this, iron bevel gear is situated directly beneath a timber great spur wheel with wooden teeth, which engages two wooden 14-tooth stone nuts on either side. One quant shaft remains, which drives a pair of French burrs made by Kay & Hilton, Liverpool, in 1855. The second drive, which is missing, operated a pair of heavily worn Peak stones, possibly contributing to the mill ceasing operations. Above, a crown wheel made entirely of wood with diagonally set teeth engages a lay shaft set lengthwise in the mill, along with a wood belt pulley and another shaft with a pulley, likely for a now-gone dresser. A lever operates a form of tentering gear, and the top floor contains a horizontal drum shaft and pulley. A sack hoist trap is preserved in the adjoining bay beyond a boarded partition.

Local climate

Bont Pandy mill and mill house, formerly known as Gelli-dymyll Mill. sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,190 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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