Former slate enamelling workshop, Rhiw'r Gwreiddyn is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 August 2004. Industrial.
Former slate enamelling workshop, Rhiw'r Gwreiddyn
- WRENN ID
- hidden-shingle-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 August 2004
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Former slate enamelling workshop, Rhiw'r Gwreiddyn, Esgairgeiliog, Glantwymyn
- OS grid reference
- SH 758 053
- Coordinates
- 52.63145, -3.83547
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former slate enamelling workshop at Rhiw'r Gwreiddyn is a long single-storey building constructed from coursed slate blocks and topped with a corrugated iron roof. At the northern end, there is a stone stack. The central entrance features a boarded door with an overlight, flanked by window openings. To the right, there is a large-pane wooden window, while the left window has been enlarged to accommodate a 3-light wooden casement. Near the right end, there is an entrance with double metal doors, and a single doorway on the far left has been infilled with stone. The roof has one small skylight and two steel flues.
On the northern gable end, there is a 20th-century panelled door to the left that leads into the kilns, and a firebox to the right of centre, which is now partially below ground level. The rear (eastern) wall is built into the bank, where two added enamelling kilns project from the wall, constructed of coursed slate blocks with a flat roof that is in poor condition and covered in grass. Two flues lead to fireboxes on the western side, made of yellow firebrick with arched heads. The rear wall of the main range has a boarded door immediately to the right of the kiln projection. A stub wall on the right side and another at the northeast angle of the building seem to mark the location of an earlier lean-to structure. Inside this area, there is a section of yellow and red brick with a flue to a firebox at the base, which has a cast iron door. To the right of this is a 2-light wooden casement that has replaced a door. At the far left end of this elevation, there is a single doorway covered by corrugated iron sheeting, along with evidence of a former lean-to structure. A four-pane window, which has replaced a door, is offset to the left of the southern gable end.
The interior features a four-bay open space supported by substantial sawn King-post trusses with diagonal struts. The tie beams are supported in the walls beneath the wall-plate level. At the northern end, two doorways lead into the slate enamelling kilns, which are said to contain fireboxes and hooks. The doorway to the right has double slate doors, while the one to the left is infilled with breeze blocks. In the centre of this wall, at a higher level, there is a small opening infilled with brick. Two additional doorways with slate double doors, located towards the left of the eastern wall, provide access to the external enamelling kilns.
Local climate
Former slate enamelling workshop, Rhiw'r Gwreiddyn sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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