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. House.
Dreifa Mills including two Water-Wheels
- WRENN ID
- spare-iron-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1994
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dreifa Mills including two Water-Wheels, Cwmorgan, Cenarth
- OS grid reference
- SN 292 345
- Coordinates
- 51.9828, -4.48758
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Dreifa Mills is a woollen mill built in 1896, constructed from rubble stone with red brick dressings and a slate roof. The building has three storeys and features a four-window range of 9-pane camber-headed windows, each with tilting top-lights, red brick surrounds, and slate sills. Red brick quoins accent the corners, and there are small windows in the end gables. The north front includes broad doors in the third bay of the ground floor and the first bay of the first floor. The west end wall has a one-window range of similar windows, while the south side features a door in the third bay of the ground floor.
On the east end, there is a restored massive overshot iron wheel, which is raised up on two stone carrying walls and fed by a renewed metal leat supported by tall wooden posts. This wheel was made at Bridgend Foundry in Cardigan. Inside the mill, a very large iron fly-wheel remains. Just east of the wheel-pit, there is an outside boiling-vat made of cast iron, set in stone with a small fireplace beneath. A second raised wheel is located to the south of the first wheel, also in a raised stone wheel-pit, but it remains unrestored.
Local climate
Dreifa Mills including two Water-Wheels sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,170 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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