No. 1 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. 1 Blast Furnace at former Neath Abbey Ironworks

WRENN ID
floating-parapet-rush
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 December 2003
Type
Industrial
Address
No. 1 Blast Furnace at former Neath Abbey Ironworks, Dyffryn Clydach
OS grid reference
SS 737 977
Coordinates
51.66463, -3.82622
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

No. 1 Blast Furnace at the former Neath Abbey Ironworks is a Grade II* listed structure. This tall blast furnace, made of rubble Pennant sandstone, has a square plan and tapers as it rises. It is built against a rock face to facilitate charging. The furnace stands approximately 16.2 meters high, with a base that measures about 11.6 meters square. The base is overgrown but features a large barrel vault on the eastern side, which has a semicircular arch made of a double ring of dressed stone voussoirs. Inside, the structure is supported by massive cast iron beams. At the rear, there is a recess and a large chamber carved out of the rock wall, designed for the tuyere or blast pipes.

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