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Ventilation Furnace, Cwm Pelenna Colliery

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 02884w
Trust : Glamorgan Gwent
Community : Pelenna
Unitary authority : Neath Port Talbot
NGR : SS81719720
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL Furnace
Status : Scheduled Monument , listed building II

Summary :
A unique surviving example of a colliery ventilation furnace with hillside flue, a type common in the non-ferrous metal smelting industries, and also used to ventilate mines. This furnace was connected with the Fforch-dwm level, driven by Robert Parsons

Description :
A unique surviving example of a colliery ventilation furnace with hillside flue, a type common in the non-ferrous metal smelting industries, and also used to ventilate mines. This furnace was connected with the Fforch-dwm level, driven by Robert Parsons and Charles Strange in the late 1830s.
The head of the flue is a short stone stack, built on a rectangular plan with rounded courners. The flue is also stone built, with an arched roof and flat floor. It runs downhill to the ruins of a probable post-war fan house which seems to have re-used it in part. The lower part of the flue is underground but is discernable as a slight ridge at the surface.

Images taken at a GGAT Tir Gofal site visit indicate that the stone stack is seriously eroding.

Sources :
The Handley Partnership , HAAbase built heritage assessment system: Buildings at Risk database
01/PM List/Cadw/1994/SAM List
02/PM Photos/Cadw/1993/AM107

Events :
E005160 : Fforch-dwm Farm, Tonmawr. Tir Gofal :HE2 (year : 2003)
E007588 : Afan Valley Adventure Resort, Neath Port Talbot (year : 2017)

Related records
National Monuments Record NPRN 93276 http://www.coflein.gov.uk/en/site/93276/details

Compiled date : 03-03-1995


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