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Felin Cwm was a water powered corn mill that was working commercially until the 1950’s and privately for some years after producing animal food for the farm it is located on. The mill was powered by an overshot wheel from which the tail race supplied a fulling mill and dye house downstream on the same site. There was also a mesh topped kiln about 8’ square by 4’ high in an adjacent building. The corn mill is almost certainly of late 18th century origin but changed probably mid 19th century. The mill building was demolished mid 2013 due to major structural defects in the gable wall which was falling inwards possibly due to decay in the random slate blocks it had been built from. The experts believe the mill only had a single stone but was converted around 1870 and the second stone installed. Possibly this is when some of the gearing, the water wheel shaft was changed and the roof raised to provide an attic.
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