Taylor's Shaft Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Engine house.

Taylor's Shaft Engine House

WRENN ID
knotted-chalk-shade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 January 2002
Type
Engine house
Address
Taylor's Shaft Engine House, Hendre, Holywell, Halkyn
OS grid reference
SJ 204 678
Coordinates
53.20132, -3.19262
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Taylor's Shaft Engine House is a two-storey brick engine house situated on a sloping site, currently in a derelict condition with its slate roof missing. The southwest gable end features a central round-headed doorway at the basement level, while the main storey has two round-headed windows that still have their wooden frames, although the glazing bars are missing. Both side walls include pairs of round-headed windows set back from the ends, and on the right side, there is also a lintelled doorway at the right end. At the rear, where the ground level is higher, there is a central round-headed window flanked by tall and narrow lintelled openings designed for winding cables.

Inside, a brick and concrete engine bed is present, which retains holding down bolts and related sockets for a horizontally mounted engine. The basement consists of a central passage that provides access to the bases of these holding down bolts. The four-bay roof still features its king-post trusses with diagonal struts, which are supported by shallow wall shafts.

Local climate

Taylor's Shaft Engine House 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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