Listed Building record MDR5917 - Colliery Head Gear, Brittain Colliery, Butterley Park Road, Ripley

Colliery head gear, Brittain Colliery, Butterley Park Road, Ripley, built c1848. 'SK 415518 Ripley, Colliery head gear. Consists of unusual head stocks partially encased in a round brick tower with a gutted engine house.' (1) The headstocks are all that remains of the three Butterley Company Colliereries (Brittain, Brands and Western). Much of the site of the collieries is now the main site of the Midland Railway Trust. (2) From the National Heritage List for England: '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.'