Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
13124
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/08/1984
Date of Amendment
01/08/1996
Name of Property
Former Lewis Merthyr Colliery Bertie winding engine house
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Community
Trehafod
Town
Locality
Trehafod
Easting
303963
Northing
191100
Street Side
N
Location
Located facing Coedcae Road at the W side of complex.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
Lewis Merthyr Colliery was established in the mid 1870s by W T Lewis (later Lord Merthyr) as an amalgamation of the Coedcae and Hafod Collieries both established in 1850. The present buildings are grouped around 2 shafts sunk c1880 and c1890. By c1900 the colliery was one of the largest in Wales producing a million tons of coal a year. It was taken over by Powell Duffryn in 1929 and the National Coal Board in 1947. It closed in 1983 and subsequently has been redeveloped as the Rhondda Heritage Park. The site contains one of the most complete groups of colliery buildings remaining in Wales. The Bertie winding engine house was built in 1878. Its steam winding engine was replaced in 1961 by an electric winding engine; the extant winding drum was installed in 1920.
Exterior
S elevation is of snecked rockfaced sandstone, long side elevations E and W of rubble sandstone with rockfaced stone dressings and red brick N; Welsh slate roof. A single main storey rectangular gabled building of 5 bays to side and 3 to gable ends. S elevation has tall pilasters either side of central round arched doorway with 6 panelled double door and radially glazed fanlight flanked by 2 long multipane windows with renewed glazing; quoins and plinth. Side E and W elevations have round arched windows with renewed multipane glazing with rockfaced voussoirs, keystone, quoins and sill. N gable has 4 round headed windows to give view of headframe and a pair of winding cable slots at centre and was formerly of timber with different pattern of fenestration but partly rebuilt in brick early C20, though rockfaced stone to sides; stone bases of headframe supports attached at corners. Roof has 2 ventilators.
Interior
Open to timber framed roof; brick pilasters to side together with rest of interior painted black. Electric motor powering the large winding drum occupies N floor area, the rest used for audio visual presentations.
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* despite renewed windows as a rare surviving winding house with an electric winding engine and for group value in this important colliery complex.
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