Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Pentre Saeson Foundry Building
Brymbo, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Pentre Saeson, Brymbo, Wrexham, designated on 9 October 1978.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 9 October 1978
- Locality
- Pentre Saeson
- Community
- Brymbo
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07110, -3.07827
- Cadw reference
- 1718
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Close to the B5102, between Brymbo and Bwlchgwyn.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Stone Chimney at Pentre Saeson FoundryIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Pen-Rhos Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Penrhos Engine HouseEngine Houseunder 1 mi
- The Bottle ChimneyIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.