Fenn's Moss Peat Processing Works is a Grade II* listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 October 2005. Industrial.

Fenn's Moss Peat Processing Works

WRENN ID
quiet-kitchen-autumn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 October 2005
Type
Industrial
Address
Fenn's Moss Peat Processing Works, Bronington
OS grid reference
SJ 478 366
Coordinates
52.92478, -2.7778
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Fenn's Moss Peat Processing Works is a Grade II* listed building featuring a steel-framed shed with a lightly trussed steel roof, consisting of 9 bays. Originally, the building was clad and roofed in corrugated iron, but it was completely stripped of its external covering at the time of inspection. The floor is raised above the surrounding ground level. On the north side, which faces the former tramway, there are three sliding steel doors. The south side has steel steps leading to a single central former door, with an outshut located to the left of this doorway.

Attached to the west gable end is a lean-to engine house, which is clad in modern corrugated galvanised metal. On the west side of the engine house, there is a steel platform that retains three cast iron tanks, each with a capacity of 1000 gallons, marked with the legend 'Corporation Transport'. Two of these tanks held water, while the third, along with a fourth tank that was removed when the works closed, was used for fuel.

The works still retains most of its original machinery, which was belt driven from a National heavy-oil engine that remains in place. The surviving machinery includes a hammer mill, a crusher, elevators, a rotary screen, and three balers, two of which were made by Webster & Bickerton, and one by Shirtliffe.

Local climate

Fenn's Moss Peat Processing Works receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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