Former forge and rolling mill at Neath Abbey Ironworks is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 25 November 1974. Industrial building.
Former forge and rolling mill at Neath Abbey Ironworks
- WRENN ID
- quartered-barrel-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1974
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Former forge and rolling mill at Neath Abbey Ironworks, Blaenhonddan
- OS grid reference
- SS 737 980
- Coordinates
- 51.66709, -3.82673
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former forge and rolling mill at Neath Abbey Ironworks is a building constructed with Pennant sandstone walls, featuring 20th-century painted roughcast render, and has dressings of Pennant sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. The southwest side elevation originally had an open arcade consisting of five semicircular arches, alternating between smaller and larger arches, but these have since been blocked and rendered over, now containing 20th-century inserted windows within the arches. Above, there are two 20th-century windows, one situated under a low gable. The southeast gable end features three blocked circular openings with stone voussoirs above, alongside the outline of a doorway with a keystone dated 1825, and a window to the left.
Inside, there is said to be an inserted floor supported by cast-iron pillars. The iron roof trusses include cast-iron compression members (angled struts) and rafters, as well as wrought-iron tension members, which consist of iron rod ties and inverted-V rods extending from the ridge to the tie-rod.
Local climate
Former forge and rolling mill at Neath Abbey Ironworks sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 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 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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