Lletty-mawr Limekiln, Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.8321 / 51°49'55"N

Longitude: -4.0312 / 4°1'52"W

OS Eastings: 260133

OS Northings: 216782

OS Grid: SN601167

Mapcode National: GBR DT.VQQZ

Mapcode Global: VH4J9.26QV

Plus Code: 9C3QRXJ9+RG

Entry Name: Lletty-mawr Limekiln

Listing Date: 27 August 1999

Last Amended: 27 August 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 22195

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300022195

Location: 50m south of the Carmel to Pant-y-llyn road, opposite Lletty-mawr. North of its quarry.

County: Carmarthenshire

Town: Llanelli

Community: Llanfihangel Aberbythych

Locality: Carmel Woods

Traditional County: Carmarthenshire

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History

This location was part of a landholding named Lletty-mawr in 1839, a freehold then and later in the Bowen family. A limekiln here was marked as disused on the map of c1886, but marked as in production again, with an associated tramway, in 1906. About 2m thickness of facing masonry and a brickwork parapet wall have been added at the front of the kiln, probably when it was decided to bring it back into use; this implies the kiln existed already by c1886.

Exterior

A fine single limekiln in squared and roughly coursed limestone masonry. About 10m in width and about 10m high. Straight but battered front wall with sides returning at nearly 90°. Two working areas each with a low and slightly pointed outer arch. About 1½m behind this front there is a break in the masonry where the earlier kiln front is concealed. The working holes are about 4m in from the front. Iron bars and corbelling over.
The top is eroded but the interior diameter appears to have been about 4m.

Reasons for Listing

One of the best-surviving large-scale limekilns in an area of intensive C19 and C20 quarrying and lime-burning industry; one of an important surviving contemporary group.

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Other nearby listed buildings

II Pant-y-garn Limekiln No. II (to east)
150m south of the Carmel to Pant-y-llyn road; reached by a lane commencing midway between Pwll-y-march and Lletty-mawr. Quarry to north.
II Pant-y-llyn Limekilns
Reached by a track running just north of the Pant-y-llyn.
II Pant-y-garn Limekiln No. I (to west)
200m south of the Carmel to Pant-y-llyn road; reached by a side path east from a lane opposite Caeffwrn. South of its quarry.
II Pwll-y-march Limekilns
200m south of the Carmel to Pant-y-llyn road; Pair of limekilns in one structure at east of Pwll-y-march quarry, reached from the road by a path opposite Caeffwrn.
II Bwlchau Limekiln
At west side of a footpath 100m north of Bwlchau farmhouse. Quarry to the west.
II Bank of Lime Kilns at Pentre Gwenlais Stone Quarry, Pentre Gwenlais Road (NE side)
Built into a steep bank near SE end of Pentre Gwenlais Limestone Quarry which lies to N of Pentre-Gwenlais village, approximately 1km W of A483.
II Blaennantgwinne Cottages
To the south side of Nant Gwenlais, and reached from the present-day hamlet of Pentregwenlais by a lane north of the road.
II Hen Gapel Milo
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Lletty-mawr Limekiln

A Grade II Listed Building in Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Carmarthenshire