Headframe And Winding Engine House, Frances Colliery, Dysart is a Grade B listed building in the Fife local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 September 1995. Colliery headframe, engine house.
Headframe And Winding Engine House, Frances Colliery, Dysart
- WRENN ID
- still-copper-jet
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Fife
- Constituency
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy MP: Melanie Ward (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 September 1995
- Type
- Colliery headframe, engine house
- OS grid reference
- NT 309 938
- Coordinates
- 56.13269, -3.11197
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The headframe and winding engine house at Frances Colliery in Dysart were built in 1943. The headframe, designed by Dickson Mann Ltd, is a tandem pulley colliery headframe made of steel girders and stands 111 feet high. It features two superposed pulley sheaves of standard colliery type and is oriented southwest to northeast.
The winding engine house is a single-storey structure with a rectangular plan, located to the northeast of the headframe. It is constructed with a steel frame and rendered brick, and has steel casement windows. The roof is made of corrugated asbestos with concrete skews. Inside, there is an electric winding engine, rope, and associated control equipment.
Local climate
Headframe And Winding Engine House, Frances Colliery, Dysart receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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