Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1970. Engine house, boiler house.
Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery
- WRENN ID
- standing-quartz-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1970
- Type
- Engine house, boiler house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
URPETH BEAMISH OPEN-AIR MUSEUM NZ 25 SW 219543 3/61 Winding engine house and boiler house at The Colliery 11.12.70 II
Winding engine house and boiler house. Previously listed at Chophill, Beamish Colliery (2nd. Pit). Built 1855, moved and rebuilt at Beamish Open Air Museum in 1974. Coursed stone with squared stone and brick dressings; Welsh slate roofs.
Tall, rectangular-plan, gable-fronted engine house. Flush quoins. Scattered openings; some under segmental relieving arches of brick. 2 wood corbels set high on front supported an A-frame wooden headstock (headstock dismantled at time of survey and to be replaced). Low-pitched roof with coped gables.
Single-storey boiler house on rear has later external brick stairway on left return; several 8-pane fixed lights and a boarded door; roof hipped at rear.
The engine house is the only surviving example in the County of a type once common in the Northern coalfield. ,
(F. Atkinson, Industrial Archaeology in the North-East of England, 1974).
Listing NGR: NZ2198054327
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