Bersham Colliery Winding Engine House

Bersham Colliery

The engine house is built of red brick with a barrel vaulted concrete roof supported on steel girders. The windows have flat concrete lintels and sills and small pane metal frames. The building is 2 storeyed, 5 bays long by 3 wide. The bays to the long elevations are marked by panels separated by pilasters and with corbelled heads. There are large windows to the first floor, on which the winding engine was located, but only one to the ground floor. A steel staircase gives access to a door at first floor level on the western side. The gable ends have stepped parapets. That facing the headframe has a raised central section to accommodate the line of the winding cable, and a pair of butresses to the front, and there are two covered openings which formerly allowed the cable to pass through. A contemporary 2-storey wing occupies part of the eastern long elevation.

The Metropolitan Vickers winding engine located on the first floor was installed in 1962 when winding was converted to electricity. The large drum itself may be original. An engine man's cabin of steel and glass is adjacent to the engine. The building is partially divided into offices and store rooms on both floors