Former colliery engine house at ETM Steel Fabrication is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 13 September 1994. Engine house.

Former colliery engine house at ETM Steel Fabrication

WRENN ID
gaunt-grate-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
13 September 1994
Type
Engine house
Address
Former colliery engine house at ETM Steel Fabrication, The British, Pontypool, Abersychan
OS grid reference
SO 253 039
Coordinates
51.72942, -3.08193
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former colliery engine house at ETM Steel Fabrication is a two-storey building constructed of red brick. It features pilasters, corbelled string courses, and a deeply corbelled eaves cornice. The hipped slate roof is topped with red ridge tiles and finials. On the first floor, there are four tall, segmental arched windows on each of the long sides, all fitted with small paned metal windows measuring 7 x 4. The north-east elevation has two windows and a central doorway that is accessed by an external staircase. The windows are adorned with corbelled brick heads and surrounds. The ground floor includes a series of smaller arched windows and circular openings for supply pipes and the fan drive. There is also a blocked opening on the south-east side, likely for winding cables. Brick supports for a waddle fan remain next to the south-west end of the building, connected to the interior by a doorway and a blocked drive-shaft hole.

Inside, the space is open to the roof at the first-floor level. All machinery has been removed, and the hall is now divided into office and workshop areas. The ground floor is separated by massive brick walls and concrete columns that support the upper floor and served as a base for the winding engine. The interior was not inspected during the resurvey in January 1997.

Local climate

Former colliery engine house at ETM Steel Fabrication sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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