Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
23072
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/03/2000
Date of Amendment
29/03/2000
Name of Property
Boiler stack of former Cardonnel Tinplate Works
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Coedffranc
Town
Locality
Tennant Canal
Easting
272601
Northing
195726
Street Side
Location
Situated in woodland E of Cwrt y Bettws farm and on the E side of the M4 and W of the Tennant Canal.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Cardonnel Tinplate Works was opened in 1891 with 3 mills, subsequently increased to 4. It was a comparatively small tinplate works but part of the large-scale expansion of the tinplate industry in the Neath and Swansea district in the late C19. Production ceased c1934 after its acquisition by Richard Thomas & Co. The premises were requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply in 1942 and the buildings were offered for sale in 1948, after which most of the buildings were probably taken down. The stack was probably associated with the boilers raising steam for the rolling mill engines.
Exterior
A tall square brick stack laid in English garden wall bond. Bricks are missing to the angles at the base, while on the W side is a blocked opening. The cap is composed of projecting bands of brickwork with larger copings.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a rare survival of a once important local industry.
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