Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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