Powder Magazine at Snibston Colliery is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 2018. Explosives store.
Powder Magazine at Snibston Colliery
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 2018
- Type
- Explosives store
- Address
- Powder Magazine at Snibston Colliery, Snibston Discovery Park, Ashby Road, Coalville, LE67 3LN
- OS grid reference
- SK 419 145
- Coordinates
- 52.7266, -1.3809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Powder Magazine at Snibston Colliery is a purpose-built explosives store, part of the mid-20th century development of the colliery, completed between 1947 and 1951.
Constructed from red brick with plain concrete dressings, it features a bitumen-coated flat roof. The building has a single-cell, rectangular plan designed with compartments for the separate storage of explosives.
Located immediately north of Winding House No 2, the single-storey Powder Magazine has single doors at each end of the front (north) elevation, along with seven small window openings with glass block glazing beneath a continuous lintel band between the doorways. The other elevations do not have any openings.
Inside, the space is divided longitudinally by a continuous counter from which explosives were dispensed. The two doorways were arranged for an 'In' and 'Out' passage, allowing explosives to depart from one end of the building. Behind the counter on the south side, there are compartments set into an internal wall, separating the dispensing area from the explosives storage area. At the east end, beyond the counter, is a small separate room with an open-fronted storage unit containing numbered individual compartments, along with another storage unit against the east end wall. The Powder Magazine was designed to securely store explosives and detonators, facilitating the distribution of materials and the receipt and disposal of unused explosives.
Local climate
Powder Magazine at Snibston Colliery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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