Pumping Engine House At Scremerston Old Mine is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 August 1975. Engine house.

Pumping Engine House At Scremerston Old Mine

WRENN ID: steep-vault-weasel
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Northumberland
Country: England
Date first listed: 18 August 1975
Type: Engine house
Source: Historic England listing

Description

Pumping-engine house at coal mine. 1840 for the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital.

Rock-faced stone with iron water tank. 3 storeys with cast-iron water-tank on top, 2 bays. Round-headed windows now boarded up. The heavily buttressed north elevation has a round headed doorway at ground floor level with a partly-blocked round-headed opening above for the beam of the engine.

Between 2nd-floor windows an inscription in raised stone surround with cornice over :-

ERECTED AD MDCCCXL

BY THE COMMISSIONERS

OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL

JOHN GREY ESQ. RECEIVER

MESSRS JOHNSON & CARRS

COLLIERY LESSEES

THOMAS FORSTER ESQ.

VIEWER & ENGINEER

MR. W. ELLIOT,TWEEDMOUTH

BUILDER

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/06/2014

Formerly listed as Water tower at Scremerston Old Mine.

Previously listed as Scremerston Old Mine.

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