Skenfrith Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 March 2001. Watermill.

Skenfrith Mill

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 March 2001
Type
Watermill
Address
Skenfrith Mill, Monmouth
OS grid reference
SO 457 202
Coordinates
51.87808, -2.78957
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Skenfrith Mill is a robust stone-built watermill, featuring an intact water wheel. It is constructed from snecked rubble with freestone quoins and dressings around most openings, topped with slate roofs. The building has a rectangular plan that runs parallel to the leet at its rear, with the southeast half designed as a twin-gabled wing. It stands three-and-a-half storeys tall.

The entrance front faces southwest, where the left half is gabled and topped with a gable chimney. There is a segmental-headed doorway slightly offset to the right of center at ground floor level, featuring a board door. Above, there are two similar doorways at first-floor level and a segmental-headed 16-pane top-hung casement window in the gable to the left. At the second-floor level on the right-hand side, there is a small square datestone inscribed "E. PROSSER . M / P. BEAVAN . C / 1867."

The left (northwest) return wall, which faces the castle, is symmetrical, with a pair of square 2-light casement windows at both ground and first floors, and a single segmental-headed 2-light casement window centered on the second floor. The twin-gabled southeast side is also symmetrical, with each half featuring a segmental-headed 16-pane window on each main floor and a narrow 6-pane attic window in the gable, all with top-hung casement openings.

At the rear, over the leet, the right-hand half is gabled and includes a wheel-pit that houses a large iron-framed undershot water wheel with wooden paddles. Above the wheel-pit, there are three vertically aligned windows, all matching the glazing style of the southeast side.

Local climate

Skenfrith Mill receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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