Felin Newydd

Felin Newydd is a simple two-storey rubble mill dating from the 19th century, featuring dressed quoins and a whitewashed front. It has a slate roof that is continuous with the millhouse, a large rendered stack on the right, oversailing eaves, and slate-hung verges. On the ground floor to the right, there is a wide camber-headed arch with stone voussoirs and old double boarded doors fitted with long strap hinges, alongside a small fixed timber light to the left. The gable end over the wheelpit has two 4-pane timber windows, which may have been rebuilt, and houses a nearly 4-metre overshot, iron-framed wheel dated 1907, fed by a timber lander at the rear. The uphill side of the mill features a timber half-door flanked by small-pane windows in plain reveals with slate sills. The west gable end has a waterwheel fed from an uphill mill pond, with a tailrace that continues diagonally below the mill to rejoin the Afon Annell.

Internally, the ground floor was originally divided into a drive-room and threshing-floor, retaining an old chamfered and adzed crossbeam with notching for a stud partition. A horizontal timber driveshaft runs through the external wall to drive the pitwheel, which is geared through a wallower to a spurwheel on a vertical main shaft supported by massive double uprights at the corners of the frame. The main shaft is connected to flanking shafts that drive two sets of stones on the upper floor. A pair of French stones, purchased in 1810, are enclosed in a polygonal timber case with a square feeder above, while a second rougher set with a domed head was used for animal feed. Various belt and chain drives linked to the pitwheel operate ancillary machinery, such as rotating cleaners and graders, on the upper floor. Shutes to bagging hoppers are set into the oak timber floor, and the shallow-pitch closed A-frame roof trusses include a part attic floor, with timber brake levers and hoist spindles reaching to the apex.