Cefn Coed Colliery, No. 2 Shaft Headframe

Colliery headframe, one of two original to the establishment of the colliery in 1926-7 and constructed of steel lattice girders with four vertical supports and two bracing buttresses extending from the head of the tower to the ground on the winding engine side. Each support has a brick plinth at ground level. The lattice girders are joined by rivetted plates. Both structures are some 18m high, with winding sheaves still in place at their tops, and form considerable landmarks in the valley. Both shafts have been capped with steel joists fixed in concrete and metal plate covers. No 2 headframe is the more southerly, and tops the downcast shaft. This was the headframe operated by the contemporaneous steam engine preserved and displayed in the adjacent museum. The structure is entirely open as ventilation control was not required. The frame has been out of use for many years and is in poorer condition, but no significant addition or subtraction seems to have been made since its construction in 1926.