Retaining Wall/Dam of Holding Pond at the Old Wire Works, Tintern, Monmouthshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6975 / 51°41'50"N

Longitude: -2.6876 / 2°41'15"W

OS Eastings: 352570

OS Northings: 200080

OS Grid: SO525000

Mapcode National: GBR JL.4BN4

Mapcode Global: VH87F.CLHL

Plus Code: 9C3VM8W6+XW

Entry Name: Retaining Wall/Dam of Holding Pond at the Old Wire Works

Listing Date: 29 September 2000

Last Amended: 9 October 2001

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 24038

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300024038

Location: About 500m west of Tintern Cross at the west end of the Old Wireworks site.

County: Monmouthshire

Town: Chepstow

Community: Tintern (Tyndyrn)

Community: Wye Valley

Locality: Chapel Hill

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Wall

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History

This dam and retaining wall for the road was constructed to pen a holding pond for the Lower Wireworks in the mid C19, presumably to improve the head of water for a new process at that time. It continued in use as a part of the tinplate works which was opened on the wireworks site in 1880 and which needed water power for the cold rollers.

Exterior

Stone rubble wall about 2m in height and about 40m in length which acted as the dam of a holding pond for the Lower Wireworks. The wall runs along the road and curves round to where the sluice controlled the outflow onto a launder across the road but this is all gone. The wall, however, is little changed.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a well preserved small mill dam dating probably from the mid C19, and as a part of an important group of surviving relics of the metal industry in the Anghidy valley.

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Retaining Wall/Dam of Holding Pond at the Old Wire Works

A Grade II Listed Building in Tintern, Monmouthshire