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
21381
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/02/1999
Date of Amendment
18/02/1999
Name of Property
Brick stack at Wernddu
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Caerphilly
Community
Caerphilly
Town
Caerphilly
Locality
Van Road
Easting
316796
Northing
186315
Street Side
Location
Located in the premises of J Pesci Engineering Works in Wernddu, S of the Caerphilly to Cardiff railway line. Visible over a wide area.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Mid to late C19 stack, related either to the kilns of boilers of the Wernddu Coal and Brickworks, present by 1901, or to the earlier Black Vein Colliery, shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1875. Although many of the colliery buildings were located further W, an engine house is shown in the vicinity of the stack.
Exterior
Tall square-section tapering stack with stepped corbelled top and neck ring. Constructed of dark red brick. It is now free-standing.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare and well preserved industrial chimney stack with historic interest in relation to local industry. A prominent landmark.
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