Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Cwm Pelenna ventilation stack
Pelenna, Neath Port Talbot, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Cwm Blaenpelenna, Pelenna, Neath Port Talbot, designated on 6 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 6 March 2000
- Locality
- Cwm Blaenpelenna
- Community
- Pelenna
- Unitary authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.66113, -3.71194
- Cadw reference
- 22888
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 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
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.
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.
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).
Nearby in the register
- Cwm Pelenna Colliery Ventilation FurnaceCollieryunder 1 mi
- Scotch FaldAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Cynon Corn-Drying KilnCorn Drying Kiln2 mi
- Blaen-Cwmbach CampMarching Camp2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.