Park Mill with Miller's House, Carpenters Shops and Smithy is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 June 1989. Mill and residential building.

Park Mill with Miller's House, Carpenters Shops and Smithy

WRENN ID
lunar-finial-cedar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 June 1989
Type
Mill and residential building
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The core of the historic group is the two-storey mill, about 7m square, with its 4.2m diameter and 1m wide breastshot wheel to the north side, and its miller's house to the south. The space to the north of the mill and around the wheel has been filled with light timber construction to form a carpentry workshop, the upper storey used for wheelwrighting. The mill and the millers house are in rubble limestone, each of two windows to the front, with slate roofs. The mill has two and three light upper casement and pivot windows with timber lintels to the front, and below a central buttress flanked by broad and stepped doorway to right and small window to left. The house has its front slightly advanced in relation to the mill, with mainly horned sash windows flanking a modern door. Stone chimneys at left and right. Modern extension at rear. Whitewashed rear to the mill with boarded door leading to the stone-lined leat. The space around the wheel and to the north is enclosed within a corrugated iron clad structure with a small pane glazed clerestory. There is a lean-to structure at the front of the mill supported on iron pillars. At right-angles, at the front, is the originally detached wheelwright's workshop, in uncoursed axe-dressed masonry, now serving as an entrance building, and a small brickwork smithy at its west end. The smithy has a roof of pantiles, which are a Kilvrough estate feature. The leat to the mill is on higher ground to the rear, and the tailrace is underground at the front.

The waterwheel is restored, with a new axle. Cast-iron hub and rims and timber spokes and scoops. On the first floor twin millstones drive the grist mill (at west) and flour mill (at east), the chutes and hoppers for which are retained. The flour mill stones are complete. Above are the drive shaft, pulleys and gearing for the sack hoist and sawmill.

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