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Site overview

Melin Orsedd, also known as Felin Dyffryn, is a former windmill at Rhoscefnhir near Pentraeth. It stands in the garden of a house down a short lane in the village. The surviving structure is now only the base of the former tower, reduced to one storey, roofless and open.

Early twentieth-century records show that the mill had already lost its working form before the mid twentieth century. Rex Wailes recorded it as an empty shell in 1929, and a 1936 photograph showed the walls standing slightly higher than they do today. The remains are protected as a Grade II listed building and are one of the reduced tower survivals from Anglesey's former wind-powered milling landscape.

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History

Melin Orsedd stands at Rhoscefnhir near Pentraeth and is also known as Felin Dyffryn. It is now a reduced windmill survival, located in the garden of a house down a short lane in the village.

The mill belonged to Anglesey's former wind-powered corn-milling landscape. It is now represented by the low remains of the tower base rather than by a complete tower. Only the lower part of the tower survives, roofless and open. The remains are full of vegetation in later photographic records, and the tower had already been reduced to an empty shell by the early twentieth century.

Rex Wailes recorded Melin Orsedd as an empty shell in 1929. A photograph taken by Muggeridge in 1936 showed the walls standing rather higher than they do today, but still without the cap, sails, machinery, or working floors. The visible survival has therefore long been a reduced structural remnant rather than a converted or restored windmill.

Melin Orsedd was listed at Grade II on 30 January 1968. Its special interest lies in the survival of the remains of a former windmill tower at Rhoscefnhir, one of the physical reminders of the many windmills that once worked across Anglesey.

Timeline

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Windmill in use

Melin Orsedd worked as a wind-powered mill at Rhoscefnhir near Pentraeth.
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Tower base survives

The former windmill survives as a low, roofless, one-storey tower base.
1929

Empty shell recorded

Rex Wailes recorded Melin Orsedd as an empty shell.
1936

Reduced tower photographed

A 1936 photograph showed the walls standing slightly higher than today, but the windmill was already an empty shell.
1968

Listed building designation

Melin Orsedd was designated as a Grade II listed building.

Sources and records

Cadw listed building record
Anglesey History article
Archwilio regional HER record
Welsh Mills Society listed windmills gazetteer