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
1894
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
27/01/1982
Date of Amendment
29/01/1999
Name of Property
Former Navigation Colliery North Winding Engine House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Crumlin
Town
Locality
Navigation Colliery Crumlin
Easting
321105
Northing
198841
Street Side
Location
Standing on the main Revetment Wall at the N end. Paired with the South Winding Engine House at S end.
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 small in plan but tall single storey rectangular Winding Engine House. Of high quality red and yellow engineering brick, the yellow brick slightly projecting and partly stepped to quoins, pilasters, plinth and cornice, forming a grid pattern; Welsh slate roof with long gabled ridge ventilator. 5 bays long and 3 wide; side elevation facing outwards has long narrow round-arched multipane metal windows with narrow keystone and sill, 3 now half blocked. Gable end has large round-arched central ground floor doorway with wide segmental arched opening above flanked by similar windows.
Interior
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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