Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Clive Engine House, Meliden
Dyserth, Denbighshire, Wales
A scheduled monument in Dyserth, Denbighshire, recorded as Engine House (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Engine House
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1979
- Community
- Dyserth
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.30849, -3.41788
- SAM number
- FL136
- Cadw record number
- 2216
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 95 Rhyl (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of an engine house, dating to the 19th century. The Clive Engine House was built in 1860-2 to house a 100in diameter beam engine and is a fine limestone building with tapered walls and a slate roof. There is a lined stone shaft in front and weatherboarding above the 'bob' wall. No internal fittings survive.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of mining in Wales. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques. An engine house may be part of a larger cluster of industrial monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Clive Engine House, Talargoch MineIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Roadside Well opposite Dyserth HallWater Supply and Drainageunder 1 mi
- Dyserth HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Craig-y-castellDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.