Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Forge
Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 25 September 1986
- Locality
- Aberaeron
- Community
- Aberaeron
- Unitary authority
- Ceredigion
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.24127, -4.25903
- Cadw reference
- 10164
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1830 "V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated at the corner with Albert Street
History
Built ca. 1850 by the Davies family, later famous for the manufacturer of the "Aberaeron Shovel" made with a water-driven tilt hammer.
Exterior
The northern block was formerly a row of industrial buildings containing a forge; woollen mill, woodturner’s workshop and tanner.
Single storey and attic rubble building, whitewashed to gable end; slate roof. 1 window, another blocked and a bricked up doorway to gable end. Cambered headed openings to left side and one to right side with studio window beyond. Adjoins mill building at far end.
Broken overshot waterwheel against gable end.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- The Old MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- 14 Water StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13 Water StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 20 Albert StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.