Winding Engine House And Boiler House At The Colliery

The winding engine house and boiler house, built in 1855, were originally located at Chophill, Beamish Colliery (2nd Pit) and were moved and rebuilt at the Beamish Open Air Museum in 1974. The buildings are constructed of coursed stone with squared stone and brick dressings, topped with Welsh slate roofs.

The engine house has a tall, rectangular plan and is gable-fronted, featuring flush quoins and scattered openings, some of which are under segmental relieving arches made of brick. There are two wooden corbels set high on the front that once supported an A-frame wooden headstock, which was dismantled at the time of the survey and is to be replaced. The roof is low-pitched with coped gables.

At the rear, the single-storey boiler house includes a later external brick stairway on the left side, several 8-pane fixed lights, and a boarded door. The roof of the boiler house is hipped at the back.

This engine house is the only surviving example of its kind in the County, representing a type that was once common in the Northern coalfield.