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
1718
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
09/10/1978
Date of Amendment
01/12/1995
Name of Property
Pentre Saeson Foundry Building
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Brymbo
Town
Locality
Pentre Saeson
Easting
327852
Northing
353195
Street Side
N
Location
Close to the B5102, between Brymbo and Bwlchgwyn.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
The foundry is thought to have been established by John Wilkinson at the end of the C18; he acquired the Brymbo Hall Estate in 1893, and subsequently enlarged it to include land at Pentre Saeson. It was in use as a foundry until 1981.
Exterior
Roughly coursed rubble with corrugated cladding to gabled roof. Single storeyed. NE and SW gables each have a circular lunette with brick dressings at the apex; SW gable has blocked arch to centre at ground level, with arched entrances to either side, that to E aligning with a similar entrance in the rear (NE) wall, which has 3 other similar blocked arches.
Interior
3 bays, with king-post roof. The surviving internal crane was used to carry a ladle of molten metal from the cupola furnace to the NE.
Reason for designation
A very rare surviving example of a small late C18 foundry building.
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