Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
The Old Forge
Pentyrch, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 31 January 2000
- Locality
- Capel Llanilltern
- Community
- Pentyrch
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.51164, -3.30007
- Cadw reference
- 22824
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 back from and lower than the main road, a little E of the hamlet.
History
Probably early - mid C19. Unoccupied at the time of inspection.
Exterior
Small forge. A low single storey building of painted stone rubble rendered to side and pebbledashed to rear, with dressed stone voussoirs to main doorway and brick voussoirs to other openings; Welsh slate roof with central stone stack. To left a basket-arched doorway with double boarded doors; to right a doorway flanked by boarded openings. Tethering ring in front wall. A chanelled stream runs past the gable end at right suggesting use of water-power. Side wall left with ground floor opening has painted sign The Old Forge.
Interior
No access to interior.
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as a small C19 forge little altered externally.
Nearby in the register
- Church of St Elldeyrn at Capel LlanillternReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- U-plan farm ranges to SE of Parc-y-JusticeAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Parc-y-JusticeDomesticunder 1 mi
- PencoedDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.