Castle Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1998. Mill.
Castle Mill
- WRENN ID
- swift-hall-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1998
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Castle Mill, Kidwelly/Cydweli, Kidwelly
- OS grid reference
- SN 407 068
- Coordinates
- 51.73793, -4.30724
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Castle Mill is a 19th-century building featuring rubble stone with red brick dressings for the mill and a rendered front for the former house, all under a shared slate roof with small end stacks, rendered on the right and stone on the left. The structure is three storeys high and has a four-window range. The mill, located on the left, has red brick on the left corner of the ground and first floors only. It includes three six-pane upper windows that are irregularly spaced, two fixed 16-pane windows on the first floor that do not align with the attic windows, and two blocked ground floor windows, one of which has a red-brick head.
To the right, there is a broad entrance arch, apparently remodelled in the 20th century, that reaches into the first floor and features red sandstone voussoirs. Recessed double doors are situated between small-paned side windows, all beneath an oak lintel. The house on the right has a 4-pane top window, two pairs of long small-paned casements on the first floor, and a similar casement pair on the ground floor. The end wall and rear of the house are rendered and include casement windows.
At the rear of the mill, there are three first floor windows and a brick arch leading to the basement on the right, which was used for the former mill-leat. A stone dividing wall separates the mill from the former house. The ground floor features heavy oak ceiling beams, while the upper floors have pine beams. The roof structure consists of pine roof trusses with tie-beams and queen-posts, although some ties have been cut.
Local climate
Castle Mill sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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