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
82941
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/06/2004
Date of Amendment
18/06/2004
Name of Property
Chimney at Llanfyrnach Mine
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Pembrokeshire
Community
Crymych
Town
Llanfyrnach
Locality
Llanfyrnach
Easting
222548
Northing
231485
Street Side
Location
On the W side of the minor road to Tegryn some 400m NE of Llanfyrnach Bridge.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Chimney associated with an important lead-mining site going back to the C18. In 1752 land leased from John Lloyd of Cilrhue, 1755 leased to Thomas Lloyd of Cardigan. 1764 report records a seam of 3 to 14 inches width, two levels, a number of shafts and an abundance of ore. 1772, lease from James Lloyd to Messrs Staley & Sheldon of Derbyshire. By 1784 Llwyncelyn mine opened, Lord Milford taking an interest, 1784 disbursements of £1000 from Llanfyrnach and Llwyncelyn. By 1793 Llanfyrnach abandoned due to flooding. Closed 1810-15 but reopened 1817 leased by T. Lloyd of Bronwydd to a syndicate. At a standstill in the 1830s. In 1844 taken on by a local solicitor, miners came from Cornwall. Water initially from the Taf, reservoir built 1861 when development restarted under W. Patrick Roberts, then a ¾ m water-tunnel built 1886 from Rhidiau. Royalties went to the Lloyds of Bronwydd, productive period in 1860s when 230 tons yielded, and two good managers, Captain Roberts and Captain Powell brought average yields up to 300 tons for about 10 years. Mine sold to new company Llanfyrnach Silver Lead Mining Co and refitted with new machinery in the 1870s, production maintained to 1883 but prices fell, mine closed 1890. The remains of an engine-house survive elsewhere on the site.
Chimney is attached to an altered roofless single-storey narrow building, the former boiler-house of No 2 shaft, and is difficult to date, probably earlier to mid C19.
Exterior
Chimney of former lead-mine, rubble stone, short, circular and tapering.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for its special historic interest as an early industrial chimney, remnant of an important local mining site.
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