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.
Engine House at Scremerston Old Mine
- WRENN ID
- solitary-thatch-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 August 1975
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House at Scremerston Old Mine, Ancroft
- OS grid reference
- NU 010 484
- Coordinates
- 55.72957, -1.98542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The engine house at Scremerston Old Mine is a 19th-century colliery winding-engine house built in 1840 for the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital. It is constructed of dressed stone and currently has no roof.
The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. To the left, there is a boarded door set in an alternating-block surround, which features a fanlight with intersecting glazing bars. Most of the windows have lost their joinery.
On the south side, there is a projecting chimney base that has no openings, except for two low, round, blocked brick arches at ground level.
Local climate
Engine House at Scremerston Old Mine receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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