No. 2 Blast Furnace at former Neath Abbey Ironworks is a Grade II* listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 2003. Industrial.
No. 2 Blast Furnace at former Neath Abbey Ironworks
- WRENN ID
- quiet-mantel-sepia
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 22 December 2003
- Type
- Industrial
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Blast furnace, very tall rubble Pennant sandstone, square-plan, tapering, built against a rock face for ease of charging. Furnace is some 19.8m high with base approximately 11.6m square. Base is overgrown but has large barrel vault on E side with semicircular arch with double ring of dressed stone voussoirs. Interior is supported by massive cast iron beams and has the remains of a slag notch. At the top of the furnace is the remains of a loading arch.
The rear of the furnace has a recess and a large chamber, hewn out of the rock wall, for the tuyere or blast pipes.
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