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
1893
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/01/1982
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Former Navigation Colliery Workshops and Stores
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crumlin
Town
Locality
Navigation Colliery Crumlin
Easting
321089
Northing
198829
Street Side
Location
At the rear of the main terrace and extending N of the Colliery Chimney.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
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.
Exterior
A long narrow building subdivided into stores and shops for colliery services such as carpenters, smiths and fitters. Of high quality red and yellow engineering brick, the yellow brick used decoratively, projecting and stepped at eaves, plinth and quoins, with narrow pilasters separating the units. Former Welsh slate roof now mostly lost. Matching round-headed openings to doors and deep windows with narrow keystones; these formerly had multipane metal-framed glazing, similar overlights to doors, now partly lost. From N, units are of 4 bays, 3 bays, 5 bays and 7 bays. 5-bay unit has 2 lateral chimneys and one at end with a large ventilator. Gable end has gable roundel, two round-arched windows.
Interior
Bolted metal trusses to roof and walls of yellow brick; doorways led to lobbies.
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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