Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Hafod Limekiln
Landore, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Landore, Swansea, designated on 18 October 1979.
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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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (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.