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
19921
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/05/1998
Date of Amendment
29/05/1998
Name of Property
Mine Chimney at Castell
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llanarmon-yn-Ial
Town
Locality
Graianrhyd
Easting
321267
Northing
356806
Street Side
Location
Situated on bank of stream some 150m WSW of Castell farmhouse, which is some 700m N of Graianrhyd on the road to Eryrys.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Mine-chimney associated with former lead-mine, presumably mid C19. Possibly the Castell engine shaft worked as part of the Nant and Bog mines by the Westminster Mines up to the 1850s, or the Bog East trial shaft.
Exterior
Lead-mine chimney, limestone rubble, circular and tapering, some 7m high.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a relatively rare surviving structure of the regionally important lead-mining industry.
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