Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
1892
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/01/1982
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Former Navigation Colliery Lamp Room
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crumlin
Town
Locality
Navigation Colliery Crumlin
Easting
321114
Northing
198776
Street Side
Location
At the rear of the main terrace and extending S of the Colliery Chimney.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
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. Photograph 1980 when building was less derelict shows very overhanging eaves to N section which also has a long gabled roof ventilator; the two sections are shown linked but with separate roofs.
Exterior
A long, low and narrow building in two sections, 7 bays to N and 6 to S, each with doorway. Of high quality red and yellow engineering brick, formerly with Welsh slate roof, now lost, tall moulded finials to ends, 2 chimneys to S wing. 3 small round-arched openings now blocked and small rectangular ventilator to S gable end.
Interior
Lined with white tiles.
Reason for designation
Listed notwithstanding its poor condition as an integral part of this important colliery complex. Group value with other listed former colliery buildings.
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