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
23816
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/07/2000
Date of Amendment
27/07/2000
Name of Property
Limekilns at Clydach Limeworks
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Monmouthshire
Community
Llanelly
Town
Locality
Clydach
Easting
323253
Northing
212718
Street Side
Location
Clydach Limeworks (disused) are located some 250 metres SE of Clydach village. Limekilns stand on W side of quarry, prominently sited approximately 20m E of the Nant Dyar Viaduct.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Late C19 limekilns, probably built for making mortar when the Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway (1862, closed 1958) was doubled in 1877: this involved widening the adjacent 8-arch Nant Dyar Viaduct . The limeworks was probably built when the railway was begun in 1862, for mortar and stone; another set of kilns located to the S (in deteriorating condition) is probably contemporary. Both kilns were served by a railway siding. By 1896, 30 men were employed at the quarry; 22 in 1944. The kilns ceased operation in the 1930s, but were refired during the war for agricultural lime, special hoods being made to place over the kilns during blackouts. The kilns finally ceased in 1955. After the railway closed in 1958, stone was brought by lorry, the quarry closing shortly after.
Exterior
Large rectangular kiln with battered walls. Rock-faced limestone construction. Some rock-faced copings remain. Paired round-headed drawing arches to left and right, set within shallow straight-headed recesses. Yellow brick arch-rings of three header courses. Small corner stoking-holes. Narrow central doorway with stone lintel leads to full-height straight flight of narrow stone steps to loading stage. Crucibles are infilled, but stair is still accessible.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a large well preserved late C19 block of limekilns, a prominent survival of the important industrial landscape of the Clydach Gorge.
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