Barony A Frame

{{short description|Preserved headframe, built 1954, at an inactive Scottish colliery}}

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The Barony A Frame is a preserved headgear in East Ayrshire, Scotland, located {{convert|2|km}} west of Auchinleck. One hundred and eighty feet high,{{Cite book |last=Hutton |first=Guthrie |title=The Scottish Coal Industry |publisher=Stenlake Publishing Ltd |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-84033-928-4 |location=Catrine |pages=3}} it was built in 1954 as part of the modernisation of the Barony Colliery, which had been opened in 1907.{{cite web |url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst18182.html |title=Barony A-Frame |work=Gazetteer for Scotland |accessdate=22 May 2012}}

The colliery closed in 1989, and in 1990 the winding engine houses, generating station and water-treatment works, as well as the A frame, were given listed building status, as category B listed structures.{{cite news|last=Hosie|first=Louise|title=Charles opens £1m monument at colliery|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/charles-opens-pound-1m-monument-at-colliery-1.873068|accessdate=May 22, 2012|newspaper=The Herald (Scotland)|date=22 January 2008}}{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB971|desc=Barony Colliery|cat=B|access-date=25 March 2019}}

It is the last remaining example of its type in Britain, and was restored in 2007 by the Barony A Frame Trust. Over £1 million was spent refurbishing the structure, including funding from Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The A-frame was reopened by Prince Charles, the Duke of Rothesay in January 2008.