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Skenfrith Mill

A Grade II Listed Building in Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8781 / 51°52'41"N

Longitude: -2.7896 / 2°47'22"W

OS Eastings: 345744

OS Northings: 220240

OS Grid: SO457202

Mapcode National: GBR FH.RST0

Mapcode Global: VH794.L2M3

Plus Code: 9C3VV6H6+65

Entry Name: Skenfrith Mill

Listing Date: 19 March 2001

Last Amended: 19 March 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 25048

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300025048

Location: Sited close to the SE corner of Skenfrith Castle, on the SW side of a leet which passes beside the E wall of the castle.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Monmouth

Community: Llangattock-Vibon-Avel (Llangatwg Feibion Afel)

Community: Skenfrith

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

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History

Dated 1867 at 1st-floor level of the SW side; continued to function until the 1990s (though by then electrically-powered).

Exterior

A sturdy stone-built watermill, with its water-wheel still intact. Built of snecked rubble with freestone quoins and freestone dressings to most openings, and slate roofs. Rectangular plan parallel with the leet to its rear, the SE half designed as a twin-gabled wing. Three-and-a-half storeys. The entrance front to the SW, the left half of which is gabled and surmounted by a gable chimney, has a segmental-headed doorway offset slightly right of centre at ground floor level, with a board door, a flanking pair of similar doorways at 1st-floor level, a segmental-headed 16-pane top-hung casement window in the gable to the left, and at 2nd-floor level of the right-hand half a small square datestone inscribed "E. PROSSER . M / P. BEAVAN . C / 1867". The left (NW) return wall, towards the castle, is symmetrical with a pair of square 2-light casement windows at ground floor and 1st floor and a single segmental-headed 2-light casement in the centre of the 2nd floor. The twin-gabled SE side is also symmetrical, each half having a segmental-headed 16-pane window to each main floor and a narrow 6-pane attic window in the gable, all these with top-hung casement openings in the heads. At the rear, over the leet, the right-hand half is gabled and has a wheel-pit containing a large iron-framed undershot water wheel with wooden paddles, and three windows vertically aligned above this (all with glazing like the SE side).

Interior

Not inspected.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a good example of a Victorian water mill, standing in very interesting contrast to Skenfrith Castle.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • II War Memorial to S of Skenfrith Castle
    Mounted on the roadside approximately halfway between the S end of the village street and Skenfrith Bridge.
  • II Telephone Call-box
    Set into grass verge close to road junction into village; open fields to rear.
  • II* Skenfrith Castle
    Situated at the SE corner of Skenfrith village, in the valley of the River Monnow, close to the W bank of the river and approximately 100m NW of Skenfrith Bridge.
  • II Mill House
    On the W side of the junction of the road with the SE end of the village street, facing the plot occupied by Skenfrith Mill.
  • II Skenfrith Bridge
    Crossing the River Monnow approximately 100m E of Skenfrith Castle.
  • II Sarn
    On the W side of the road in the centre of Skenfrith village, facing Skenfrith Castle approximately 50m to the SE.
  • II The Old Shop
    In the centre of Skenfrith village, approximately 50m SE of the Church of St Bridget, with Skenfrith Castle to the front and the church to the rear.
  • I Church of St Bridget
    Very attractively situated towards the N end of the village and approximately 100m NW of Skenfrith Castle, with which it forms part of a very fine group.

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