Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Headframe at Hetty Shaft
Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales
A Grade I listed building in Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff, designated on 3 August 1984.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade I
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 3 August 1984
- Locality
- Hopkinstown
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Community
- Pontypridd
- Unitary authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.60914, -3.36672
- Cadw reference
- 24872
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1907 · 248 Pontypridd (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Attached to the N side of the engine house.
History
Gyfeillion Colliery (later known as Ty Mawr) was sunk in 1848 and its Hetty shaft was sunk by the Great Western Colliery Company in 1875, when the engine house was built (date on building). Coal was raised from a depth of 360m but by 1923 the seams were worked out. Subsequently the Hetty was used as an emergency shaft for Ty Mawr and Lewis Merthyr collieries and the engine, kept on standby, was converted for use with compressed air. The shaft was abandoned in 1983.
The head frame was built in 1902 by Neville of Llanelli to replace the original wooden head frame, in conjunction with which the engine was also modified. The cramped nature of the site, caused by the gradient of the hillside and the proximity of the railway on the N side, resulted in the winding engine being located closer to the headframe and shaft than was customary.
Exterior
Head frame with rolled steel joists and diagonal legs built into the engine house, with 2 sheaves and steel ropes. A brick base is built around the head of the shaft.
Reason for designation
Listed grade I as one of the earliest surviving steel head frame in the S Wales coalfield, and a sight once characteristic of the S Wales valleys, and for group value with the engine and fan houses.
Scheduled Ancient Monument Gm 459.
Nearby in the register
- Hetty PitCollieryunder 1 mi
- Fan House at Hetty ShaftIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Hetty Engine HouseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Troedrhiwtrwyn FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.