Wall Hey Pit Furnace Ventilation Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1978. A Victorian Industrial chimney. 1 related planning application.
Wall Hey Pit Furnace Ventilation Chimney
- WRENN ID
- swift-ashlar-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Wigan MP: Lisa Nandy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1978
- Type
- Industrial chimney
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Wall Hey Pit Furnace Ventilation Chimney, Haigh Road, WN2 1RN
- OS grid reference
- SD 610 087
- Coordinates
- 53.57405, -2.59034
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wall Hey Pit Furnace Ventilation Chimney, built in 1840, is a square brick structure made in stretcher bond, featuring clasping pilasters at each corner. These pilasters create a recessed face on each side, complemented by an expressed plinth, an apex drip mould, and a staggered cornice. The chimney cap is missing, and all openings are closed. The pit shaft is 645 feet deep. This type of chimney was once common in the 19th century but has become rare due to the advent of mechanical fans.
Local climate
Wall Hey Pit Furnace Ventilation Chimney sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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