Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Ruined Warehouse By Kidwelly Bridge
Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1998
- Locality
- Kidwelly/Cydweli
- Town
- Kidwelly
- Community
- Kidwelly
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.73795, -4.30857
- Cadw reference
- 20190
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
Situated on E side of main road (A 484) overlooking NE end of Kidwelly Bridge.
History
Late C18 to early C19 warehouse, said to be associated with the shipment of tin-plate from the Kidwelly Tin-Plate Works, the second oldest tin-plate factory in Britain, founded 1737.
Exterior
Grey limestone rubble with red-brick window heads. Roofless roughly square range built onto the end gable of an older, demolished, building. Flat wall-heads suggest that roof was hipped to front. Three-storey, three-window S front, the right windows obscured by ivy and ground floor windows blocked. Red brick flat heads appear to be in a soft brick that could be C18, but dating evidence is lacking. W side, to road, has central one-window range, the top window missing its head, the first floor opening large and blocked, probably a loading door. Low door to left, brick NW angle and then short return back to older gable end.
Reason for designation
Listed as an industrial relic associated with the historically-important tin-plate industry, and for it's prominent position overlooking Kidwelly Bridge.
Nearby in the register
- Kidwelly Bridge/Pont CydweliTransportunder 1 mi
- The Town GateDefenceunder 1 mi
- Capel SulReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- The War Memorial and railingsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.