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
Country: England
Date first listed: 27 July 1987
Type: Museum, winding house
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SJ 79 NW 7/51

TYLDESLEY HIGHER GREEN LANE (east side) Astley Green Mining Museum winding house

G.V. II

Pit-head winding house, now museum. Brick with slate roof. 7 x 3 bays. Each bay has a round-arched window with iron glazing bars within a recessed panel. Decorative brick eaves band. Roundel panel in each gable. Doors in central bay on east side and C20 patent glazing windows to the south through which the drive ropes originally ran. Glazed tiles and quarry-tile floor inside. The twin tandem compound steam engine is the largest of its kind in Lancashire. It turned a bi-cylindro conical winding drum. The machinery is virtually complete and incorporates minor alterations of various dates to comply with statutory safety requirements including a brake engine.

Listing NGR: SJ7046199974

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