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Former Navigation Colliery Workshops and Stores

A Grade II Listed Building in Crumlin, Caerphilly

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6827 / 51°40'57"N

Longitude: -3.1428 / 3°8'33"W

OS Eastings: 321089

OS Northings: 198829

OS Grid: ST210988

Mapcode National: GBR HZ.5B5H

Mapcode Global: VH6D8.GYWY

Plus Code: 9C3RMVM4+3V

Entry Name: Former Navigation Colliery Workshops and Stores

Listing Date: 27 January 1982

Last Amended: 29 January 1999

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 1893

Building Class: Industrial

ID on this website: 300001893

Location: At the rear of the main terrace and extending N of the Colliery Chimney.

County: Caerphilly

Community: Crumlin (Crymlyn)

Community: Crumlin

Locality: Navigation Colliery Crumlin

Built-Up Area: Newbridge

Traditional County: Monmouthshire

Tagged with: Workshop

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History

Navigation Colliery Crumlin was built by the firm of Partridge Jones and Company between 1907 and 1911. The firm was one of the largest coal combines in S Wales, owning 9 collieries in the Gwent valleys. Navigation Colliery was a show-pit of the period with high quality buildings and up-to-date machinery. One of the earliest collieries in S Wales to be built in brick rather than local stone with brick dressings. Closed 1967 and disused since.

Exterior

A long narrow building subdivided into stores and shops for colliery services such as carpenters, smiths and fitters. Of high quality red and yellow engineering brick, the yellow brick used decoratively, projecting and stepped at eaves, plinth and quoins, with narrow pilasters separating the units. Former Welsh slate roof now mostly lost. Matching round-headed openings to doors and deep windows with narrow keystones; these formerly had multipane metal-framed glazing, similar overlights to doors, now partly lost. From N, units are of 4 bays, 3 bays, 5 bays and 7 bays. 5-bay unit has 2 lateral chimneys and one at end with a large ventilator. Gable end has gable roundel, two round-arched windows.

Interior

Bolted metal trusses to roof and walls of yellow brick; doorways led to lobbies.

Reasons for Listing

Listed notwithstanding its poor condition as an integral part of this important colliery complex. Group value with other listed former colliery buildings.

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