Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
27/01/1982
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Former Navigation Colliery Chimney
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Locality
Navigation Colliery Crumlin
Location
In the centre of the main Revetment Wall, between the N and S Winding Engine Houses and close to the Workshops and Store, and Lamp Room to rear.
History
Navigation Colliery Crumlin was built by the firm of Partridge Jones and Company between 1907 and 1911. The firm was one of the largest coal combines in S Wales, owning 9 collieries in the Gwent valleys. Navigation Colliery was a show-pit of the period with high quality buildings and up-to-date machinery. One of the earliest collieries in S Wales to be built in brick rather than local stone with brick dressings. Closed 1967 and disused since.
Exterior
A very tall, slender and tapering square chimney of high quality red engineering brick with a stepped brick cornice and plinth.
Reason for designation
Listed II* as an important building in this nearly complete colliery complex of national importance. Group value with other listed former colliery buildings.
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