Assorting Room 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. Industrial building.

Assorting Room at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works

WRENN ID
silent-spire-coral
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Carmarthenshire
Constituency
Llanelli MP: Dame Nia Griffith (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 1998
Type
Industrial building
Address
Assorting Room at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works, Cwm Gwendraeth Fach
OS grid reference
SN 421 078
Coordinates
51.74705, -4.28858
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Assorting Room at the former Kidwelly Tinplate Works is a single-storey building constructed of red brick with a tarred felt roof. The west side features many altered openings. Originally, the openings had yellow-brick jambs and rounded cambered heads, but almost all have been blocked or modified. At the right end, there are three blocked windows with cast-iron sills, which appear to have been raised or inserted later. The jambs or entire frames of other blocked windows are irregularly spaced along the length of the wall. There is one doorway towards the right end with a 20th-century concrete lintel, and a ledged door in an altered opening towards the left end. The upper end wall is whitewashed and includes a 20th-century sliding door. The rear of the building originally had eight windows, three of which are blocked, while some still retain their original cast-iron 9-pane glazing bars.

Inside, the walls are whitewashed brick, and there is a long sorting bench along the rear wall. The roof is supported by trussed steel and consists of nine bays, with boarding beneath the roof cladding.

Local climate

Assorting Room at former Kidwelly Tinplate Works sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,410 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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