Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1988. Headstock tower.
Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery
- WRENN ID
- white-latch-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley MP: Linsey Farnsworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1988
- Type
- Headstock tower
- Address
- Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery, Butterley Park Road, Ripley
- OS grid reference
- SK 415 517
- Coordinates
- 53.06181, -1.38145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The headstocks to Brittain Colliery and attached machinery, built around 1848, are a notable industrial structure located on Butterley Park Road in Ripley. The building is constructed of red brick with blue brick bands and is currently roofless. It stands three storeys tall, with a single bay and a circular plan. The ground floor is wider than the upper two storeys and features an advanced entrance on the south side, along with attached walls to the north. The second storey has small iron windows on the east and west sides, while the top storey is adorned with a brick cornice and a large pulley wheel on the south side, set within a long slot-like opening. This pulley wheel is connected to a pair of iron supports that extend at right angles to the tower, linking to the plinth that supports the gearing machinery. The Brittain colliery was established by the Butterley Company between 1845 and 1848 and was operational for over 50 years, as noted in F Nixon's "Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire" from 1969.
Local climate
Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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