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Latitude: 51.7168 / 51°43'0"N
Longitude: -3.4484 / 3°26'54"W
OS Eastings: 300034
OS Northings: 203002
OS Grid: SO000030
Mapcode National: GBR HK.35B3
Mapcode Global: VH6D3.53TQ
Plus Code: 9C3RPH82+PJ
Entry Name: Cynon Valley main Store Building (formerly the Casting House at Gadly's Ironworks
Listing Date: 12 April 1989
Last Amended: 10 January 1991
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 10844
Building Class: Industrial
ID on this website: 300010844
Location: In the Gadlys area of the town reached along old road set back from modern relief road; opposite Cynon Valley Transport Depot and Works.
County: Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community: Aberdare (Aberdâr)
Community: Aberdare East
Built-Up Area: Aberdare
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dating after l827 when Matthew Wayne, ironmaster and coal owner of Merthyr, established a single furnace at Gadlys (in conjunction with G R Morgan and E M Williams). The former casting house building (now Main Store) may originate from l855-6 when the last two furnaces (out of 4) were built. Blast furnaces shut down completely l875-6. Later Cl9 enlargement along NE side.
Twin gabled ranges with long flank to furnace bank. Dark rubble facings with red and yellow brick dressings, yellow brick patching to upper gable ends and under eaves possibly consistent with re-roofing (?). Pitched slate roofs, boarded eaves and plain bargeboards. Brick-dressed oculi (blocked) to gable ends with twin brick-dressed arched openings, 3 with traceried fanlights to SE end. Small, later range makes part of NW gable end which retains one traceried fanlight.
7-bay long flank with arched small-pane window frames set into brick-faced arched recesses (formerly open). Bolted plates to spandrels.
Interiors with twin boarded roofs with metal-rod trusses, central arched arcade in stonework with brick dressings. Brackets to spandrels of windows (formerly supporting rails for travelling cranes?).
Important group value with furnace block and blast engine house at former Gadlys Ironworks.
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