Astley Green Mining Museum Winding House is a Grade II listed building in the Wigan local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Museum, winding house.
Astley Green Mining Museum Winding House
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-storey-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Museum, winding house
- Address
- Astley Green Mining Museum Winding House, Higher Green Lane
- OS grid reference
- SJ 704 999
- Coordinates
- 53.49564, -2.44672
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Astley Green Mining Museum winding house is a pit-head winding house that now serves as a museum. It is constructed of brick and topped with a slate roof, measuring seven by three bays. Each bay features a round-arched window with iron glazing bars set within a recessed panel, and there is a decorative brick eaves band. Each gable has a roundel panel. The east side has doors in the central bay, and there are 20th-century patent glazing windows on the south side, through which the drive ropes originally passed. Inside, there are glazed tiles and a quarry-tile floor. The winding house houses a twin tandem compound steam engine, which is the largest of its kind in Lancashire, and it operated a bi-cylindro conical winding drum. The machinery is nearly complete and includes minor alterations made at various times to meet safety regulations, including a brake engine.
Local climate
Astley Green Mining Museum Winding House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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