Engine House Nortonthorpe Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1994. Engine house.
Engine House Nortonthorpe Mills
- WRENN ID
- wild-turret-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1994
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House Nortonthorpe Mills, Cuttlehurst, Denby Dale
- OS grid reference
- SE 246 100
- Coordinates
- 53.58642, -1.62907
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House at Nortonthorpe Mills, built between 1885 and 1886 for Norton & Co Ltd, is a single-storey structure made of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and a stone slate roof. It features two circular metal ventilators and bracketed eaves with wooden guttering. The main south-west facade has five large round-headed openings, each with ashlar hoods, keystones, and a linking impost band. The central opening contains a single glazed door with sidelights, and all these openings have renewed 20th-century glazing. There is also a similar round-headed opening on the south-east side.
Inside, the building retains its original 1885 Pollitt & Wigzell steam engine, which is a unique three-piston rod tandem, compound condensing design made solely by Pollitt & Wigzell. This is the only known surviving long stroke example of this engine. Originally named Empress, it was re-named Violet after being overhauled in 1906, following the birth of the owner's daughter, G H Norton.
Local climate
Engine House Nortonthorpe Mills receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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