Dreifa Mills including two Water-Wheels is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 2 March 1994. Woollen mill.

Dreifa Mills including two Water-Wheels

WRENN ID
rusted-gable-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
2 March 1994
Type
Woollen mill
Source
Cadw listing

Description

1896 woollen mill in rubble stone with red brick dressings and slate roof. Three storeys, four-window range of 9-pane camber-headed windows with tilting top-lights. Red brick surrounds and slate sills. Red brick quoins. Small windows in end gables. N front has broad doors in third bay of ground floor and first bay of first floor. W end wall has one-window range of similar windows. S side has door in third bay of ground floor. E end has restored massive overshot iron wheel raised up on two stone carrying walls and fed by renewed metal leat on tall wooden posts. Wheel was made at Bridgend Foundry, Cardigan. A very large iron fly-wheel survives inside. Just E of wheel-pit is an outside boiling-vat, cast-iron in stone setting with small fireplace beneath. A second raised wheel is to S of first, also in raised stone wheel-pit, but is unrestored.

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