Headframe at Hetty Shaft is a Grade I listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 August 1984. Headframe.
Headframe at Hetty Shaft
- WRENN ID
- ancient-ember-ivy
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Constituency
- Pontypridd MP: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Headframe
- Address
- Headframe at Hetty Shaft, Hopkinstown, Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taff
- OS grid reference
- ST 054 909
- Coordinates
- 51.60914, -3.36673
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The headframe at Hetty Shaft is a Grade I listed structure featuring rolled steel joists and diagonal legs that are integrated into the engine house. It includes two sheaves and steel ropes. Surrounding the head of the shaft is a brick base.
Local climate
Headframe at Hetty Shaft sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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