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
13484
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/12/1995
Date of Amendment
01/12/1995
Name of Property
The Bottle Chimney
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Brymbo
Town
Locality
Mount Zion
Easting
328495
Northing
353837
Street Side
Location
Occupies an elevated site to the E of the Brymbo Lead Smelting Works site, between the reservoir and the Minera Road.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Brymbo Lead Smelting Works was established c1792, by John Wilkinson. It continued in use until the 1880s and with little significant change it was then used for a time to manufacture carbon. The bottle chimney ('Brymbo Bottle') was part of the system for collecting lead sublimate in the smelting process: use of a bottle chimney in this way appears to have been distinctive to Wilkinson, and this is the only one to survive. Originally c30m high, it was partially demolished in 1962.
Exterior
A tapering circular structure now with a height of c6m. Roughly coursed rubble, with 2 openings in the base, with cast-iron lintels.
Interior
Reason for designation
Significant as the only standing structure associated with Wilkinson's Brymbo Lead Smelting Works to survive. An extremely rare building type, and the only one of its particular type to survive in Wales.
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