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Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House is a Post Medieval and Modern period industrial structure located in Denbighshire, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference DE238. The building functioned as a fan house within the colliery complex, serving the essential purpose of ventilation for underground coal mining operations. Walker fan houses represent a distinctive class of industrial architecture associated with Welsh coalfield development, reflecting the technological infrastructure required to support deep mining in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The structure survives as physical evidence of the region's industrial heritage and the engineering systems that enabled exploitation of Denbighshire's coal reserves.
Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference DE238. View the official record →
Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House is a Post Medieval and Modern period industrial structure located in Denbighshire, Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference DE238. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference DE238.
Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a fan house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Wynnstay Colliery Walker Fan House is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is DE238.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including A 1.43km length of the Ellesmere Canal and associated features at Chirk Bank (6.2 km), Motte castle adjacent to Oaklands Hall, Chirk Bank (6.3 km), Roman military site at Rhyn Park (6.4 km).
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