Llanyrafon Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 October 2002. Water-powered corn mill. 3 related planning applications.

Llanyrafon Mill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
23 October 2002
Type
Water-powered corn mill
Address
Llanyrafon Mill, Cwmbran, NP44 8HP
OS grid reference
ST 302 947
Coordinates
51.64707, -3.0089
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Llanyrafon Mill is a water-powered corn mill, constructed from whitewashed rubble stone with some render, topped by a 20th-century close-eaved slate roof. The mill is oriented from northwest to southeast. It has two storeys on the northeast side and three storeys on the southwest side, where the water wheel and southeast entrance are located. The windows are small, featuring red brick cambered heads and late 20th-century glazing.

The southeast end includes a stone gabled porch with a broad cambered-headed entry that has a yellow brick head, along with a small ground floor window to the left. There is a large cambered-headed loft window in the gable. The southwest side has a rendered upper wall that is set back from the stonework along an irregular line, likely rebuilt after a collapse. The broad water wheel is made of cast iron with metal paddles, and its inner and outer faces are uniquely constructed in two half-round sections bolted together. The timber shaft was lost in a fire, and there is a concrete launder.

On the first floor, there are four cambered-headed windows, with the second and fourth being larger. The northeast elevation consists of four bays with four cambered-headed upper windows, all but the third of which are blocked. The ground floor, which corresponds to the first floor of the southwest side, has one similar window to the left and two windows to the right of a large loading door, all with stone sills.

Inside the southeast porch, there is a cambered-headed door with a brick head. The interior features stone flags on the ground floor, with no upper floors present. The roof structure was replaced in the 20th century after a fire in 1971. There are two burnt beams around the iron pit-wheel and two horizontal wheels, along with a tall cast-iron vertical shaft that has one wheel at the top.

Local climate

Llanyrafon Mill receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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