Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boxing Room at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works
Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 28 July 1998
- Locality
- Cwm Gwendraeth Fach
- Town
- Kidwelly
- Community
- Kidwelly
- Unitary authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.74668, -4.28867
- Cadw reference
- 20195
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 in Kidwelly Industrial Museum, some 2km NE of the town in the Gwendraeth Fach valley. Boxing Room is the sorthern half of the red brick range just within museum site.
History
Industrial building of c1880, used for the storage of tin-plate after polishing and packing in the adjoining Assorting Room. The Assorting Room was built after the Box Room. Tin-plate production began on the site in 1737, the second oldest site in Britain. The works closed in 1941 and much was demolished: the surviving Assorting-Room, Box-Room, Hot-Rolling Mill and Cold-Roll Engine House date from 1880-1914. Restored 1980-4.
Exterior
Red brick with slate roof. Single storey long range with three windows on W side, small-paned with cast-iron lintels. The glazing is late C20, the openings were loading doors. Arched openings at both ends, one into Assorting Room the other in whitewashed S end gable, that formerly was an internal wall with a further store-room beyond. Window to right of arch, and blocked opening above arch, partly broken into by arch.
Interior
Broad interior with 7 massive roof trusses, tie-beam and collar with queen-posts and angle struts, but principal rafters do not extend beyond collars. Brick floor.
Reason for designation
Listed as part of the only preserved tin-plate works in Britain.
Nearby in the register
- Assorting Room at former Kidwelly Tinplate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Kidwelly Old Tinplate Works and DamTinplate Worksunder 1 mi
- Chimney at former Kidwelly Tinplate WorksIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Hot & Cold Rolling Mills, Kidwelly Tinplate WorksTinplate Worksunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.