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Pentre Saeson Foundry Building

A Grade II Listed Building in Brymbo, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.0711 / 53°4'15"N

Longitude: -3.0783 / 3°4'41"W

OS Eastings: 327852

OS Northings: 353195

OS Grid: SJ278531

Mapcode National: GBR 72.BGRX

Mapcode Global: WH77S.P2CG

Plus Code: 9C5R3WCC+CM

Entry Name: Pentre Saeson Foundry Building

Listing Date: 9 October 1978

Last Amended: 1 December 1995

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 1718

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300001718

Location: Close to the B5102, between Brymbo and Bwlchgwyn.

County: Wrexham

Community: Brymbo

Community: Brymbo

Locality: Pentre Saeson

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

The foundry is thought to have been established by John Wilkinson at the end of the C18; he acquired the Brymbo Hall Estate in 1893, and subsequently enlarged it to include land at Pentre Saeson. It was in use as a foundry until 1981.

Exterior

Roughly coursed rubble with corrugated cladding to gabled roof. Single storeyed. NE and SW gables each have a circular lunette with brick dressings at the apex; SW gable has blocked arch to centre at ground level, with arched entrances to either side, that to E aligning with a similar entrance in the rear (NE) wall, which has 3 other similar blocked arches.

Interior

3 bays, with king-post roof. The surviving internal crane was used to carry a ladle of molten metal from the cupola furnace to the NE.

Reasons for Listing

A very rare surviving example of a small late C18 foundry building.

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