Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bettisfield Colliery Lamp Room
Bagillt, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bagillt, Flintshire, designated on 26 September 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 26 September 1994
- Community
- Bagillt
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.27462, -3.17854
- Cadw reference
- 15819
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1896 · 96 Liverpool (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located on the W side of a lane off the N side of the A 548 between Bagillt and Dee Bank. The lamproom is on the L immediately beyond the bridge carrying the railway over the lane.
Exterior
Coal mining began in the area around Bagillt in the Mid C18. Bettisfield Colliery, located on the edge of the marshes next to the railway, was established in the mid C19, and operated until the mid C20. Lamp room probably built circa 1880's.
The lamproom is single storey gabled building in red brick with a slate roof. There is a short brick chimney stack at the SW end, and a raised ventilator at the centre. The front elevation, to the SE, has three segmental arched windows, all currently blocked, and a doorway. The roof eaves are brought deep across the front of the building and supported by timber posts to provide a sheltered queueing area for miners collecting their lamps.
Listed for group value with the adjacent winding engine house and as a rare surviving example of a former colliery lamproom.
Nearby in the register
- Bettisfield Colliery Winding Engine House and HeapsteadIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Bagillt Gaol (Lock Up)Civilunder 1 mi
- Forester's Hall (Cocoa Rooms)Recreationalunder 1 mi
- Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.