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
18282
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/03/1997
Date of Amendment
18/03/1997
Name of Property
Tramway Incline Structure above Kilgetty Ironworks Furnace bank
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Kilgetty/Begelly
Town
Locality
Kilgetty Ironworks
Easting
214045
Northing
207278
Street Side
Location
On high ground, to the rear of Kilgetty Ironworks and its limekilns, on the W side of Pleasant Valley.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
In 1845, in anticipation of establishing iron furnaces at Kilgetty, the Pembrokeshire Iron and Coal Company started to consider sinking a new pit at Grove. The decision was taken in 1852 and the new pit opened in 1856. By this time the Ironworks was in production. It had three tramways, as shown on the 1888 map; two of them were probably for tipping but the one of which this structure formed the lower terminal was for delivering coal directly to the Ironworks. The Colliery was also connected to the Saundersfoot Railway.
Regular exploitation of the Colliery ceased in 1884. The ironworks had closed in 1877. By 1900 it was proposed to remove all machinery from Grove to Kilgetty Colliery, which was presumably done.
Exterior
A sandstone retaining wall with a diagonal aperture, which was the structure at the foot of the northernmost of the self-acting inclines bringing coal down from Grove Colliery to the Ironworks.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with the other structures of the top level of Kilgetty Ironworks.
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