Cefn Coed Colliery, No. 2 Shaft Headframe is a Grade II* listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1990. Shop. 4 related planning applications.
Cefn Coed Colliery, No. 2 Shaft Headframe
- WRENN ID
- gilded-arch-nettle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Neath Port Talbot
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1990
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Cefn Coed Colliery, No. 2 Shaft Headframe, Crynant
- OS grid reference
- SN 785 033
- Coordinates
- 51.7155, -3.75974
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Cefn Coed Colliery's No. 2 Shaft Headframe is a colliery headframe built in 1926-1927. It is made of steel lattice girders supported by four vertical posts and two bracing buttresses that extend from the top of the tower to the ground on the winding engine side. Each support has a brick base at ground level, and the lattice girders are connected by rivetted plates. The headframe stands about 18 meters high, with winding sheaves still in place at the top, making it a prominent landmark in the valley. The shafts have been capped with steel joists set in concrete and covered with metal plates. No. 2 headframe is the southern structure and sits above the downcast shaft. It was operated by a steam engine that is now preserved and displayed in the nearby museum. The headframe is completely open since ventilation control was not necessary. Although it has not been used for many years and is in poorer condition, no significant changes have been made to it since its construction in 1926.
Local climate
Cefn Coed Colliery, No. 2 Shaft Headframe sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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