Engine House of Former Tyne Main Colliery is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 January 1983. Engine house.
Engine House of Former Tyne Main Colliery
- WRENN ID
- strange-facade-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Jarrow and Gateshead East MP: Kate Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 January 1983
- Type
- Engine house
- OS grid reference
- NZ 275 631
- Coordinates
- 54.96222, -1.5717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House of the former Tyne Main Colliery, built around 1820, is a robust rectangular structure made of coursed sandstone with battered walls. It features a narrow round-arched entrance at one end. This building housed an 180 horsepower engine designed by Thomas Easton, which was installed in 1820 to pump water out of the mine. At the time, it was the most powerful engine on Tyneside, capable of moving one and a half million gallons of water per day.
Local climate
Engine House of Former Tyne Main Colliery receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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