Abermagwr Sawmill is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 March 2004. Sawmill.

Abermagwr Sawmill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 March 2004
Type
Sawmill
Address
Abermagwr Sawmill, Aberystwyth, Trawsgoed
OS grid reference
SN 665 737
Coordinates
52.34579, -3.96071
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Abermagwr Sawmill is a 19th-century sawmill constructed from rubble stone and timber, topped with a hipped roof made of corrugated iron. The building is a long, two-storey structure featuring an open ground floor supported by stone corner piers, with a loft floor above. The northern wall has rubble stone infill, and there is an outside water-wheel housed in an open-fronted lean-to made of stone at one end. The large cast-iron wheel, located in a wheel-pit, has iron spokes and a rim marked "Davies & Durie Aberystwyth 1868." The left wall of the lean-to is designed with a pierce for a timber launder.

To the right of the lean-to, there is an open bay with 20th-century timber steps leading up to a loft door, and a timber lintel above a boarded-in ground floor bay. The western end of the building features corner piers and an open ground floor, with boarding above, and is adjacent to a barn built around 2000. The southern side has an additional open lean-to and a loft supported by two cast-iron columns, originally three, with iron lintels, creating an open upper floor. The eastern end has 20th-century boarding on the loft, which includes a fixed eight-pane window, while the ground floor has a small boarded lean-to on the left and a window and door on the right, with one iron column supporting an iron lintel.

Inside, the open ground floor contains belt-driven circular saws, and there is an iron axial lintel set back from the eastern end to an iron column.

Local climate

Abermagwr Sawmill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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