Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery
HEADSTOCKS TO BRITTAIN COLLIERY AND ATTACHED MACHINERY, BUTTERLEY PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109011
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery
- Statutory Address:
- HEADSTOCKS TO BRITTAIN COLLIERY AND ATTACHED MACHINERY, BUTTERLEY PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109011
- Date first listed:
- 25-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and Attached Machinery
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEADSTOCKS TO BRITTAIN COLLIERY AND ATTACHED MACHINERY, BUTTERLEY PARK ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HEADSTOCKS TO BRITTAIN COLLIERY AND ATTACHED MACHINERY, BUTTERLEY PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Amber Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripley
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 41550 51795
Details
SK 45 SW RIPLEY BUTTERLEY PARK ROAD (north side)
4/66 Headstocks to Brittain Colliery and attached machinery
GV II
Headstock tower and attached machinery. c1848. Red brick with blue brick bands. Roofless at time of resurvey. Three storeys, single bay, circular in plan. Ground floor is wider than upper two storeys and has an advanced entrance to south side and attached walls to north. Second storey has small iron windows to east and west sides and top storey has brick cornice and large pulley wheel to south side set in long slot-like opening. Attached to the wheel are a pair of iron supports at right angles to the tower which connect with the plinth on which the gearing machinery stands. Brittain colliery was founded by Butterley Company, between 1845 and 1848, and was mined for over 50 years. F Nixon 'Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire' 1969.
Listing NGR: SK4155051795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79110
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nixon, F, Industrial Archaeology of Derbyshire, (1969)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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