Cold-roll Engine-house at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works is a Grade II* listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1998. Engine-house.
Cold-roll Engine-house at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1998
- Type
- Engine-house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Red brick with slate roof. W side has door, three blocked large doors and one further door. Roundel in each gable end. Arched entry in N gable end, two cambered-headed windows in S end. Eight windows in rear wall, 4 blocked. Later C20 lean-to roof over cold-roll machines outside to W.
White rendered walls, 7 steel roof trusses. Massive machinery made by Cole, Marchant & Morley of Bradford Yorks. Horizontal tandem compound engine powering one very large 5.5m (18') flywheel to left from which 15 steel hawsers drive three large wheels in sequence to right, a donkey-engine started first wheel which in turn drove the next three, that provided motive power for the cold-rolling outside. Overhead gantry rails.
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