Aberlash Tinplate Works was erected 1889 and closed in 1908. The building was constructed of stone with brick surrounds to the doors and windows. The southern facade had a central arched doorway. By 1989 the building was was ivy-grown and deteriorating with the original roof in an apparently dangerous state, although one of the chimney stacks from the tinning bays survived.

Source: "A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of the Swansea Region", Association for Industrial Archaeology, 2nd Edition, 1989

RCAHMW, 12 September 2011.