Latitude: 51.8261 / 51°49'33"N
Longitude: -3.1011 / 3°6'4"W
OS Eastings: 324209
OS Northings: 214735
OS Grid: SO242147
Mapcode National: GBR F2.W1DW
Mapcode Global: VH795.6CDG
Plus Code: 9C3RRVGX+CG
Entry Name: Limekilns at Auckland House
Listing Date: 27 July 2000
Last Amended: 27 July 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 23832
Building Class: Industrial
ID on this website: 300023832
Location: Auckland House is located on the w side of Gilwern Village at end of short driveway off Church Road, immediately w of canal. Limekilns are located within grounds of house to the N, alongside canal.
County: Monmouthshire
Community: Llanelly (Llanelli)
Community: Llanelly
Locality: Gilwern
Built-Up Area: Gilwern
Traditional County: Brecknockshire
Tagged with: House
Probably built soon after 1817, when the Llanelly Wharf on the Brecknock and Abergavenny Canal was completed. The kiln was supplied by coal and limestone brought in via the Clydach Railroad, the burnt or slaked lime exported via the canal for agriculture and building.
Very long block of limekilns built into bank alongside canal. Rubble construction, with continuous stringcourse above drawing-arches. Drawing-arches are paired, having round-arched heads with stone voussoirs. Two pairs to left, and then to right is a round-arched doorway into a dog-leg stone stair leading to the loading stage. To right of doorway is another pair of drawing-arches. Stone vaults, some obscured by spoil. Deep retaining side walls. Top stage much overgrown.
Listed as particularly impressive early C19 block of limekilns, a rare industrial survival; group value with Auckland House, the latter also a rare and early industrial survival, being among the first railway warehouses in the world, built 1819-22.
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