 After the original lease expired in 1796, the furnace was probably owned by Bell and Gaskell, including Thomas Bell, who had managed it for the Kendalls, whose main activity by then was running the Beaufort Ironworks in Beaufort, Ebbw Vale, in the South Wales Valleys.The water wheel, shown in the photographs, provided power for a sawmill.The site was previously a Silver Mill of the Society of Mines Royal.