Chimney and Attached Boiler House at Caphouse Colliery is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1988. Chimney, boiler house. 1 related planning application.

Chimney and Attached Boiler House at Caphouse Colliery

WRENN ID
rooted-mortar-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wakefield
Constituency
Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1988
Type
Chimney, boiler house
Address
Chimney and Attached Boiler House at Caphouse Colliery, New Road, Sitlington, WF4 4RH
OS grid reference
SE 253 164
Coordinates
53.64416, -1.6179
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The chimney and attached boiler house at Caphouse Colliery, likely built around 1876, features a stone chimney with a later brick upper section and a brick boiler house topped with an asbestos roof. The square chimney tapers, while the upper part is straight-sided and reinforced with iron straps. The boiler house has two levels and houses two cylindrical Lancashire boilers encased in brickwork. A later addition includes a hopper feed and chain-grate system at the end opposite the chimney. These boilers powered the winding engine located just to the south. At the time of construction, the mine was owned by the Lister Kaye family of Denby Grange, but it went bankrupt in 1914, leading to a new company taking over in 1917.

Local climate

Chimney and Attached Boiler House at Caphouse Colliery 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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