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.
Date of Designation
15/08/2000
Date of Amendment
15/08/2000
Name of Property
Boiler stack of former lead mine NW of Cefn-parc Farm
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Location
In a field NW of Cefn-parc Farm, and standing on a ridge overlooking Llantrisant to the N.
History
Probably built in the C18, and one of a number of C18 lead mines in the Vale of Glamorgan. The mine is shown as disused on the 1841 Llantrisant Tithe map, by which time all the other buildings on the site had been taken down. A later OS map marks the stack as an air shaft for a local colliery.
Exterior
A round rubble-stone stack approximately 3m diameter at the base and tapering to approximately 25m high. Projecting coping stones partly survive. The stack is constructed on a wider stone plinth, which has partly fallen away. A segmental-headed opening is on the W side at the base.
Reason for designation
Listed for industrial archaeological interest as a rare surviving building associated with lead-mining industry of the Vale of Glamorgan.
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