{{Short description|Watermill in Monmouthshire, Wales}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Mathern Mill | image = Mathern Mill, Mathern, Monmouthshire.jpg | caption = " a large and fine early C19 watermill on an historic site" | type = Mill | locmapin = Wales Monmouthshire | map_relief = yes | coordinates = {{coord|51.6215 | -2.7014 |display=inline,title}} | location = Mathern, Monmouthshire | area = | built = c.18th/19th centuries | architect = | architecture = Vernacular | governing_body = Privately owned | designation1 = Grade II* listed building | designation1_offname = Mathern Mill and attached house | designation1_date = 6 September 1974 | designation1_number = 2732 | designation2 = | designation2_offname = | designation2_date = | designation2_number = }} '''Mathern Mill''', Mathern, Monmouthshire is a watermill dating from either the late 18th or early 19th centuries. It continued in use as a functioning mill until 1968. Retaining much of its 19th century mill workings, it is now open to the public on an occasional basis. It is a Grade II* listed building.
==History and description== A mill may have stood on the site since before the 18th century,<ref name="cadw">{{NHAW|num=2732|desc=Mathern Mill|grade=II*|access-date=18 April 2022}}</ref> Cadw suggesting a medieval origin, but the current building appears to date from the very late part of the 18th century or the early 19th century.<ref name="cadw"/> The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) supports the view that the mill’s origins are medieval.<ref>{{Coflein|num=40073|desc=Mathern Mill and Millhouse|access-date=7 October 2023}}</ref> The brick range facing the road is of c.1840. The mill was little altered from this time until its closure in 1968, and only minor modifications have been made since that date.<ref name="cadw"/>
Of two ranges, the brick-fronted narrower range is of three-storeys and served as the engine house.<ref name="cadw"/> The secondary range, set back from the road contained the miller's house on the left, and the mill room to the right. Cadw suggests that the main mill-working machinery is intact and in situ,<ref name="cadw"/> but the interior was not inspected during the re-surveying of the building in October 2000. A Grade II* listed building, its listing describes it as "a large and fine early C19 watermill on an historic site, which is believed to retain much of its machinery".<ref name="cadw"/>
The mill is privately owned but opens occasionally.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalmillsweekend.co.uk/pages_water/mathern.htm|title=National Mills Weekend: Mathern mill|website=www.nationalmillsweekend.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://welshmills.org/?page_id=612 |title=Mills Open in Wales 2017 South Wales|publisher=Welsh Mills Society – Cymdeithas Melinau Cymru |date=14 May 2017 |accessdate=24 July 2017}}</ref> As of September 2016, its owners were planning to re-open the mill for visitors in 2017.<ref>{{cite web|author=Nick Ramsay AM for Monmouth |url=https://www.nickramsay.org.uk/news/nick-visits-mathern-mill |title=Nick Visits Mathern Mill |publisher=Nick Ramsay |date=12 September 2016}}</ref>
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Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Monmouthshire Category:Watermills in Wales Category:Grade II* listed watermills