Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hafod Limekiln
Landore, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 18 October 1979
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63776, -3.93646
- Cadw reference
- 11694
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 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set away from the main road and reached under the railway line. Formerly on W side of Swansea Canal (now filled in) begun 1794, fully opened 1798.
Exterior
Late C18 to early C19. Tapering stone rubble wall 5.8 metres square. Discharge opening with segmental brick arch to E side, facing canal; further possible opening in S wall and vertical, full-height chase in N wall (to bond in with lateral retaining wall). Copper slag charging bank formerly against W and part of N elevations. One of only 3 lime-kilns remaining along the Swansea Canal in 1978.
Reason for designation
In derelict condition at time of inspection (Spring 1986).
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- Boundary wall of former Hafod Copperworks canal docksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Chimney west of Vivian engine houseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Copper slag abutment to former waste tip tramroadIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Vivian engine houseIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.