Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stone Chimney at the former Hill Pits
Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hill Pits, Garn-yr-Erw, Blaenavon, Torfaen, designated on 9 February 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 9 February 1995
- Locality
- Hill Pits
- Town
- Garn-yr-Erw
- Community
- Blaenavon
- Unitary authority
- Torfaen
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.78589, -3.10460
- Cadw reference
- 15305
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1856 map "42. Brecon." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1856 · 42. Brecon. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 232 Abergavenny (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 14. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the hillside above Garn-yr-Erw and reached by track from Garn Road.
History
Hill pits was sunk by Thomas Hill & Son in the late 1830s to supply iron ore and coal for the Ironworks at Blaenavon with which there was a direct tramroad link. Production appears to have begun in 1844 and continued until about 1893. The chimney served a winding steam engine for twin shafts to the north and presumably dates from the onset of production.
Exterior
The 6m high stack is built of roughly dressed stone, on a chamfered stone plinth, with dressed quoins. The stack is approximately 2.3m square and a projecting cornice surmounted by circular moulding.
Nearby in the register
- Brake Engine on Hill Pits Tramroad InclineInclineunder 1 mi
- Dyne Steel InclineInclineunder 1 mi
- Old Coal Pits, BlaenavonAir Shaftunder 1 mi
- Ironstone Quarries at Carreg Maen TaroQuarryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.