Colliery Ventilation Furnace at Llandafal is a Grade II listed building in the Blaenau Gwent local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 September 1994. Terraced shop.
Colliery Ventilation Furnace at Llandafal
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Constituency
- Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney MP: Nick Smith (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 September 1994
- Type
- Terraced shop
- Address
- Colliery Ventilation Furnace at Llandafal, Cwm
- OS grid reference
- SO 187 037
- Coordinates
- 51.72662, -3.17719
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The colliery ventilation furnace at Llandafal is constructed from brown and yellow firebrick, using black mortar. It has a circular plan with a diameter of approximately 3.5 meters and vertical sides that rise to about 7 meters. The thick walls are topped with large coping bricks featuring a diamond pattern. On the south side, there is a small blocked archway that may have been intended for the addition of another flue. The air shaft connects to a stone-lined drift of a similar date, which enters the hill from the riverbank below.
Local climate
Colliery Ventilation Furnace at Llandafal sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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