Rhydlydan Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1995. Industrial.

Rhydlydan Mill

WRENN ID
blind-buttress-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 March 1995
Type
Industrial
Address
Rhydlydan Mill, Caersws, SY16 3HP
OS grid reference
SO 058 931
Coordinates
52.5283, -3.38944
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Rhydlydan Mill is a 19th-century stone building with brick dressings and eaves courses, topped by a slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic. The ground floor features two doors and two windows, while the upper stone floor has three windows and one blocked window. The gable ends are timber framed and weatherboarded. At the rear, a cambered-headed window illuminates the wheel house.

The mill includes a funnel-type kiln with a brick substructure and perforated iron tiling in the loft. Inside the attic, there is a raised walkway between wooden bins and trapdoors. A wooden sack-hoist is located to the left, and the roof trusses have arched ties to allow passage underneath. Wooden steps lead down from the attic to the stone floor, which contains three sets of millstones, two of which are marked with the names E. Davies & Sons, Liverpool, and Kay & Hilton, Liverpool. The three pairs of stones are powered from above by wooden stone nuts and have hoppers above them. At the rear right of the stone floor, there is machinery for a flour dresser and a boulter. The driving machinery consists of an internal overshot iron wheel with wooden buckets, which are now missing, and an iron pit wheel. The ground floor has a wooden stair leading up to the stone floor and a doorway into the kiln, which can also be accessed from the stone floor.

Local climate

Rhydlydan Mill sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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