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
81848
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
10/09/2003
Date of Amendment
10/09/2003
Name of Property
Scott's Pit Engine House
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Birchgrove
Town
Swansea
Locality
Heol-las
Easting
269720
Northing
198300
Street Side
W
Location
Situated between Llansamlet and Heol-las just NE of the M4 motorway.
Description
Broad Class
Period
History
Engine house, built 1817-19 by John Scott, a solicitor from London. It made little money and was subsequently sold to C. H. Smith a local coal-owner who worked it until c1842. A tramroad ran from the pit to White Rock on the Afon Tawe. The engine house was recommissioned in 1872 to ventilate and drain Cae Pridd Colliery and this continued intermittently until 1930. It was restored 1976-80 and is now owned by Swansea Council.
Exterior
Cornish engine house, rubble stone with C20 mertal sheet roof. Massive external chimney breast on rear wall stepped in in four stages, the first two stages large, the upper two smaller and then with tapering brick stack. The front wall has big segmental arched gable opening with stone voussiors for the beam and a narrower one at ground level. S side is higher due to falling ground. Big ground floor opening with segmental arch in red brick, then first to right and above a cambered-headed door with orange brick head. Above again a blocked small arched opening with red brick head and above again a cambered-arched door with orange brick head. The orange brick heads are of later date than the red brick.
N side has first floor camber-headed door with orange brick head and above an arched small opening with orange brick head and to right of this another cambered-headed door.
Interior
All floors removed. Retains big platform for the cylinder.
Reason for designation
Included at a higher grade as a remarkably complete earlier C19 Cornish beam engine house. The engine house together with other remains on the site are a Scheduled Ancient Monument (GM336).
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