Dolforgan sawmill is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 1996. Sawmill.
Dolforgan sawmill
- WRENN ID
- buried-gateway-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 September 1996
- Type
- Sawmill
- Address
- Dolforgan sawmill, Newtown, Kerry
- OS grid reference
- SO 142 900
- Coordinates
- 52.50126, -3.26397
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dolforgan sawmill is a two-storey brick building with a slate roof, featuring openwork crested ridges and heavily carved timber bargeboards. The brickwork is painted white and decorated with a black-painted design that mimics elaborate timber framing. The building has three bays, with the center bay being narrower and containing the former entrance, which is recessed under a segmental painted brick arch. The central bay is gabled to the east and features a clock with gilded figures and the date 1900. The windows are made of 20th-century timber and plastic. At the center of the roof, there is an open timber bellcote supported on posts that stand on the ridges, complete with spike finials and retaining its bell. Attached to the north gable end is a lower outbuilding that has similar painted walls and a slate roof, along with a steeply pointed bellcote set at an angle to the ridge. The interior was not accessible during the inspection in January 1996.
Local climate
Dolforgan sawmill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% 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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