Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boiler stack of former Cardonnel Tinplate Works
Coedffranc, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 29 March 2000
- Locality
- Tennant Canal
- Community
- Coedffranc
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64586, -3.84268
- Cadw reference
- 23072
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 woodland E of Cwrt y Bettws farm and on the E side of the M4 and W of the Tennant Canal.
History
Cardonnel Tinplate Works was opened in 1891 with 3 mills, subsequently increased to 4. It was a comparatively small tinplate works but part of the large-scale expansion of the tinplate industry in the Neath and Swansea district in the late C19. Production ceased c1934 after its acquisition by Richard Thomas & Co. The premises were requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply in 1942 and the buildings were offered for sale in 1948, after which most of the buildings were probably taken down. The stack was probably associated with the boilers raising steam for the rolling mill engines.
Exterior
A tall square brick stack laid in English garden wall bond. Bricks are missing to the angles at the base, while on the W side is a blocked opening. The cap is composed of projecting bands of brickwork with larger copings.
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a rare survival of a once important local industry.
Nearby in the register
- Bridge over Tennant Canal E of Cwrt y Bettws FarmTransportunder 1 mi
- Neath River swing bridge (partly in Neath and Briton Ferry Communities)Transportunder 1 mi
- Neath River Swing Bridge (partly in Coedffranc and Neath Communities)Transportunder 1 mi
- Llandarcy Round CairnRound Cairnunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.