Boiler Stack at Taylor's Shaft is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Industrial.

Boiler Stack at Taylor's Shaft

WRENN ID
spare-buttress-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Industrial
Address
Boiler Stack at Taylor's Shaft, Hendre, Holywell, Halkyn
OS grid reference
SJ 204 677
Coordinates
53.20121, -3.19247
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Boiler Stack at Taylor's Shaft is a tall, tapering square structure made of brick, partially hidden by vegetation. It features a projecting collar beneath the cap. The south side has a brick flue that was used for a former bank of boilers, and the west side contains a blocked round-headed opening. On the north side, there is a stone tablet with a date.

Local climate

Boiler Stack at Taylor's Shaft receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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