Former Navigation Colliery Workshops and Stores is a Grade II listed building in the Caerphilly local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 27 January 1982. Workshops and stores.

Former Navigation Colliery Workshops and Stores

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Caerphilly
Country
Wales
Date first listed
27 January 1982
Type
Workshops and stores
Source
Cadw listing

Description

A long narrow building subdivided into stores and shops for colliery services such as carpenters, smiths and fitters. Of high quality red and yellow engineering brick, the yellow brick used decoratively, projecting and stepped at eaves, plinth and quoins, with narrow pilasters separating the units. Former Welsh slate roof now mostly lost. Matching round-headed openings to doors and deep windows with narrow keystones; these formerly had multipane metal-framed glazing, similar overlights to doors, now partly lost. From N, units are of 4 bays, 3 bays, 5 bays and 7 bays. 5-bay unit has 2 lateral chimneys and one at end with a large ventilator. Gable end has gable roundel, two round-arched windows.

Bolted metal trusses to roof and walls of yellow brick; doorways led to lobbies.

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