Kilgetty Colliery Chimney Base is a Grade II listed building in the Pembrokeshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1991. Chimney base.
Kilgetty Colliery Chimney Base
- WRENN ID
- grey-doorway-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1991
- Type
- Chimney base
- Address
- Kilgetty Colliery Chimney Base, Stepaside, Tenby, Amroth
- OS grid reference
- SN 138 077
- Coordinates
- 51.73775, -4.69747
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Kilgetty Colliery Chimney Base is a structure dating from the colliery's operational period. The chimney base is approximately 2.5 meters square on the outside and 1.25 meters square on the inside, rising to a height of about 4.5 meters above the yard's ground level. It is constructed from rubble sandstone with dressed quoins, resembling the style of the weighbridge office. The chimney tapers slightly for the first 3 meters, after which the taper becomes gentler. The upper parts of the chimney are roughly broken and covered in ivy.
There are two arched openings at the base of the chimney. The northern opening connects to a firebrick flue that extends several meters along the eastern bank of the yard, although the nearside wall and the arched top of the flue are missing. The internal height of the flue is about 1 meter above the current ground level, suggesting this may have been the site of a boiler house. The second opening faces west, positioned above where the main flue connects. This aperture measures 0.6 meters wide by 0.8 meters high and features a hinged iron access cover for servicing the chimney.
The chimney is included for its group value with the remaining engine house and weighbridge house.
Local climate
Kilgetty Colliery Chimney Base sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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