Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bersham Colliery No 2 Headframe
Esclusham, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II* listed building in Rhostyllen, Esclusham, Wrexham, designated on 8 December 1995.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 8 December 1995
- Locality
- Rhostyllen
- Community
- Esclusham
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.02641, -3.02339
- Cadw reference
- 16567
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
On the SE side of the lane which leaves Wrexham Road opposite Church Street towards the W end of Rhostyllen.
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Bersham Colliery: No 2 Winding GearCollieryunder 1 mi
- Bersham Colliery Winding Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Former Bersham Colliery Baths, Canteen and OfficesCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of The Holy TrinityReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.