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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1994
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following buildings shall be added:-
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DENBY DALE CUTTLEHURST, Scisset (East side) Engine House Nortonthorpe Mills
GV II
Engine house. 1885-6. Built for Norton & Co Ltd. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and stone slate roof with 2 circular metal ventilators and bracketed eaves with wooden guttering. Single storey. 5 windows. Main south-west facade has 5 large round headed openings with ashlar hoods, keystones and linking impost band. The central opening has a single glazed door with side lights, all these openings have renewed C20 glazing. A single similar round headed to the south-east. Interior. Retains its original 1885 Pollitt & Wigzell steam engine. It is of a unique 3 piston rod tandem, compound condensing design made solely by Pollitt & Wigzell, and this is the only known surviving long stroke example. It was originally named Empress, but after being overhauled in 1906 it was re-named Violet after the birth of the owner, G H Norton's daughter.
Listing NGR: SE2465310044
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