Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Talrych Smithy and Forge
Abergele, Conwy, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 4 October 1973
- Locality
- Plas Kinmel
- Town
- Abergele
- Community
- Abergele
- Unitary authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27421, -3.53557
- Cadw reference
- 244
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 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
The building stands in the NW angle of St Asaph Road and Gors Road, and close to the intersection with the A55.
History
Built in 1867 to the design of William Eden Nesfield for the Kinmel Estate as the estate blacksmith's accommodation and workshop.
Exterior
Built of limestone with slate roofs with pierced red ridge tiles, and slate hanging in the main S gable. Red brick chimneys. The pair of cottages are of one storey and attics, the first floor oversailing on stone corbels and clad with pargetting, renewed 1966, when it was lined out and painted panels made, replacing the original impressed sunflowers. Casement windows with glazing bars. A lower roof extends E, terminating in a hipped dormer. At this end, a single range at right angles extends to the rear and contained the original smithy. Double openings at each end, now converted to windows. Stack part external at the W. To the rear, a hipped single storey service wing of 1 bay set at the centre of the main range.
Interior
Originally 4 pairs of bellows. One set has been relocated at Bersham, Nr Gresford.
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of the estate staff dwellings built for the Kinmel Estate.
Nearby in the register
- Bodoryn-fachDomesticunder 1 mi
- West Range of Farm Buildings at Plas KinmelAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Llwyni Lodge Gate PiersGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Llwyni Lodge, also known as the Golden Lodge and Gate LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.