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Latitude: 52.4489 / 52°26'56"N
Longitude: -3.5423 / 3°32'32"W
OS Eastings: 295276
OS Northings: 284560
OS Grid: SN952845
Mapcode National: GBR 9H.LSLB
Mapcode Global: VH5BX.KQ50
Plus Code: 9C4RCFX5+H3
Entry Name: Former Flannel Mill
Listing Date: 10 April 1989
Last Amended: 10 April 1989
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 8367
Building Class: Recreational
ID on this website: 300008367
Location: At the end of the street on the E bank of the River Severn; besides the Short Bridge.
County: Powys
Community: Llanidloes
Community: Llanidloes
Built-Up Area: Llanidloes
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Mill
Formerly known as the Town Factory and later as the Bridgend Flannel Mill.
Built 1834 by Mrs Cole of Glanclywedog on the site of an c18 factory; mid C19 alterations. By 1908 it was run by William Morris and Sons. Major fire January 1937, after it was bought by two Frenchmen and converted into the Boy's Club. The last surviving nearly intact example of a substantial woollen mill in Llanidloes.
3-storeys, the lower of which is built into the bank. Rubble masonry with quoins; modern flat roof and cambered stock brick voussoirs to 9-pane hopper windows. The main elevation is that flanking the river; the lower masonry is coursed and has slightly battered base. A vertical break rising to 2nd floor level to right of the 3rd bay suggests that the mill has been extended at the down stream end and raised by one storey with simultaneous rewindowing, perhaps ca 1850 contemporary with the building of Short Bridge. At the base of this extension is a segmental headed opening with rubble voussoirs, probably a spillway. Largely collapsed rubble outbuilding at S end by weir and one brick infilled doorway at the top of main end wall.
2-storey, 4-bay elevation to Short Bridge Street with boarded up ground floor openings. 9-bay rear with boarded eaves and some boarded up openings; central openings at left end.
Disused at time of inspection (March 1988).
Interior partly converted into a gym.
Group value.
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