Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
22888
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
06/03/2000
Date of Amendment
06/03/2000
Name of Property
Cwm Pelenna ventilation stack
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Community
Pelenna
Town
Locality
Cwm Blaenpelenna
Easting
281686
Northing
197204
Street Side
Location
On open hillside approximately 1.6km ENE of Tonmawr, and sited on high ground on the E side of an unclassified road to Fforch dwm.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Built in the 1830s as a ventilation stack with hillside flue for a local coal level. Structures below the flue belong to a later C19 colliery.
Exterior
A truncated square rubble stone ventilation stack with rounded angles, standing on a square base. The stack stands approximately 5m high. On the downhill (W) side of the base is a round arch at the upper end of a stone flue visible in the hillside below.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its industrial archaeological interest as a rare survival associated with the developing South Wales coal industry of the early C19.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 458 (NEP).
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