Former Plas Power Colliery Western Winding Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 September 1994. Villa.
Former Plas Power Colliery Western Winding Engine House
- WRENN ID
- winding-baluster-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wrexham
- Constituency
- Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 26 September 1994
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Former Plas Power Colliery Western Winding Engine House, Southsea, Broughton
- OS grid reference
- SJ 299 519
- Coordinates
- 53.0599, -3.0466
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former Plas Power Colliery Western Winding Engine House is a red brick structure featuring a hipped roof, measuring four bays long and two bays wide. It has tall, round-headed windows with brick arches and stone sills, although most window frames are missing, with only a few fragments remaining. These fragments indicate that the windows originally had small-paned metal frames with radially and concentrically glazed fanlights. On the north elevation, there are two large and two small openings that relate to winding cables and the engine man's viewing lines. The building also has a continuous deeply corbelled eaves cornice.
The timber roof, which is missing slates, includes a small dormer on the north slope for the winding cable to pass through, along with additional low dormers for ventilation on other sides. Inside, the large stone engine bases rise to the main floor level, surrounded by pits and a semi-basement. Several large timber beams are positioned across the engine beds.
Local climate
Former Plas Power Colliery Western Winding Engine House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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