Bersham Colliery Winding Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 7 October 1994. Engine house.
Bersham Colliery Winding Engine House
- WRENN ID
- errant-lime-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 7 October 1994
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Bersham Colliery Winding Engine House, Rhostyllen, Esclusham
- OS grid reference
- SJ 314 482
- Coordinates
- 53.02675, -3.02365
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Bersham Colliery Winding Engine House is a two-storey structure built of red brick, featuring a barrel vaulted concrete roof supported by steel girders. The building measures five bays long and three bays wide, with windows that have flat concrete lintels and sills, and small pane metal frames. The long elevations are marked by panels separated by pilasters topped with corbelled heads. The first floor, which houses the winding engine, has large windows, while the ground floor has only one window. Access to the first floor is provided by a steel staircase leading to a door on the western side. The gable ends of the building have stepped parapets, with the gable facing the headframe featuring a raised central section for the winding cable line and a pair of buttresses at the front. There are also two covered openings that previously allowed the cable to pass through. A contemporary two-storey wing is attached to part of the eastern long elevation.
The Metropolitan Vickers winding engine, installed in 1962 when the winding was converted to electricity, is located on the first floor, and the large drum may be original. Adjacent to the engine is an engine man's cabin made of steel and glass. The interior of the building is partially divided into offices and store rooms on both floors.
Local climate
Bersham Colliery Winding Engine House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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