Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Llay Hall Colliery Workshops
Gwersyllt, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Sydallt, Gwersyllt, Wrexham, designated on 26 September 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 26 September 1994
- Locality
- Sydallt
- Community
- Gwersyllt
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.08985, -3.02440
- Cadw reference
- 15829
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 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the group of former Llay Hall Colliery buildings inuse as an industrial estate east of Mold Road. The workshops are on the north side of the complex and are in use as stores.
History
Llay Hall Colliery operated from 1877 until 1948. It was sunk by the Llay Hall Coal, Iron and Fireclay Company and worked in association with a fire brick works on the opposite side of the River Alyn. It was nationalised in 1947 but closed shortly afterwards, following a serious underground explosion. The workshops appear to date from the original construction of the colliery in the 1870s.
Exterior
The workshops are a single-storey gabled structure in red brick (painted to the front), with a slate roof. The building stands on a tall revetment wall at the rear but faces the level colliery yard at the front. The windows are tall and round-headed with metal frames of 30 panes with concentric and radially glazed fanlights. There are eight windows to the rear, and four to the front, together with three sliding doors. There is a shorter round-headed window to each gable end. Near the apex of the roof are six unusual miniature dormer-style sloping roof vents (three on each side), and two chimney stacks towards the middle of the block.
Interior
The building is partially subdivided and in use as a store.
Reason for designation
Listed as an early colliery workshops building and for group value with other structures at the former Llay Hall Colliery.
Nearby in the register
- Former Llay Hall Collery Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Llay Hall Colliery Chimney and FlueIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Rock CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Former Llay Hall Colliery Washery BuildingIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.