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Listed Structures related to Metal Mining

(details from British Listed Buildings Online website)

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Lead Mining

Engine House at Hendre Quarry, Hendre Grade: II

Cilcain, Mold, Flintshire CH7 5QF

 

Date Listed: 24 February 1976
Cadw Building ID: 525

Cornish engine house Hendre mine

Boiler Stack at Taylor's Shaft, Halkyn Grade: II
Date Listed: 31 January 2002
Cadw Building ID: 26203

Taylor's Shaft Engine House Grade: II
Date Listed: 31 January 2002
Cadw Building ID: 26202
Halkyn, Holywell, Flintshire CH7 5QD
1896, the date on the adjacent boiler stack.

The North Hendre Lead Mine worked until 1938, and was subsequently mined for high-quality limestone for glass for Pilkingtons of St Helens until 1969.

 

Taylor's shaft buildings

Pennant Lead Mine Winding Engine House Grade: II
Tremeirchion, St Asaph, Clwyd LL17 0TH
A well-preserved ruin of a Cornish winding engine house.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No. FL137(DEN)

Pennant Engine house
Pennant Engine house interior

Chimney near Meadow Engine House Grade II
Minera, Wrexham, Wrexham

Meadow (or City) Engine House Grade II
Minera, Wrexham, Wrexham

Engine house and chimney Minera

Mine Chimney at Castell Grade: II
Date Listed: 29 May 1998
Cadw Building ID: 19921
Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Mold, Denbighshire CH7 4QB
Mine-chimney associated with former lead-mine, presumably mid C19. Possibly the Castell engine shaft worked as part of the Nant and Bog mines by the Westminster Mines up to the 1850s, or the Bog East trial shaft.

Chimney & shaft Castell

Engine House, Whitford Grade: II
Date Listed: 24 February 1976
Cadw Building ID: 526
Whitford, Holywell, Flintshire CH8 8RD
A winding-engine house associated with the Lloc lead mine. The engine house and its shaft are shown on the Ordnance Survey of 1871, when it appears to have been in use. Later converted to a dwelling, when a fireplace and stack were inserted. Disused and in poor condition at time of resurvey. (no date given)
Incorporated into new dwelling c2008.

Whitford Engine house

Clive Engine House, Talargoch Mine Grade: II
Date Listed: 12 October 2001
Cadw Building ID: 25956
Dyserth, Rhyl, Denbighshire LL18 6DX
The only surviving monument of one of the leading lead mines in Wales, and a well-preserved engine house of exceptional character.

Clive Engine House

Engine House at the former Nant Lead-mine Grade: II
Date Listed: 5 November 1979
Cadw Building ID: 1301
Llanarmon-yn-Ial, Mold, Denbighshire CH7 4TD
Engine house for former Cornish beam-engine that pumped the Nant lead-mine, said to be dated 1841. The mine was one of the more prominent mining enterprises in the area.
Of group value with the chimney on the slope above.

Nant engine house
Nant lead mine chimney

Aberduna Engine House, Grade: II
Date Listed: 20 September 1990
Cadw Building ID: 1342
Llanferres
Roofless rubble walls, 3-storey Cornish engine house.
Listed as a good surviving example of an engine house and for associations with the local lead mining industry but now partially blocked with quarry waste.
 

Chimney; Llanrwst Lead Mine,Gwydir Forest, Grade: II
Date Listed: 30 May 1996
Cadw Building ID: 17830

Llanrwst mine chimney and engine house

Copper Mining

Pearl Engine House Anglesey Grade II
Date Listed: 12 December 2000
Cadw Building ID: 24458

Pearl Engine House Anglesey

Parys Mountain Windmill, Anglesey Grade II
Date Listed: 25 October 1951
Cadw Building ID: 5425

Parys Mountain Windmill, Anglesey
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