Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
16567
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/12/1995
Date of Amendment
08/12/1995
Name of Property
Bersham Colliery No 2 Headframe
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Esclusham
Town
Locality
Rhostyllen
Easting
331458
Northing
348170
Street Side
Location
On the SE side of the lane which leaves Wrexham Road opposite Church Street towards the W end of Rhostyllen.
Description
Broad Class
Industrial
Period
History
History: Bersham Colliery was one of the most important in the Denbighshire Coalfield during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It was first sunk in 1867 but was substantially adapted and re-built in both the 1930s and the 1950s before closing in 1986. The headframe was installed on the site in 1935.
Exterior
A steel lattice girder headframe with four near-vertical legs and two shear legs bracing it on the engine house side. The lattice girders are joined by rivetted plates. The two sheaves are still in place, together with braces above. Steps up one of the shear legs give access to a platform around the sheaves. The shaft has been capped.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed grade II* as a rare surviving colliery headframe, the only one remaining in the Denbighshire Coalfield, and for group value with the buildings of Bersham Colliery.
Scheduled Ancient Monument De199.
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