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
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.  

Group Description
Bersham Colliery  

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