Winch House at Mill Meece Pumping Station

Winch House at Mill Meece Pumping Station is a single-storey building constructed around 1914 for the Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company. Designed by William Campbell and built by Thomas Godwin and Son, it now serves as a museum.

The building is made of Accrington red brick in English bond, featuring stone dressings and a clay-tiled roof. It has a square plan and is characterized by a chamfered stone plinth, raised banded quoins, brick cogging, and a pyramidal roof with exposed rafter ends. The north-west and south-west faces each have a single window, while the south-east face includes a round-headed doorway with double wooden doors. The north-east face is blind. The windows are six-paned casements with chamfered stone lintels, and the window and door openings are round-headed with gauged brick arches and keystones. On the north-west face, below the window and partly set within the plinth band, there are two shuttered rectangular openings for the winch rope to exit the building, which then passes through two pulleys at the top of the steel superstructure surrounding the rocking quadrant at the south-west end of the engine house. This winch was used to raise the pump rods and valves when the lift pumps required regrinding.

Inside, the building contains a steam-powered winch from 1914, made by J Woods and Sons of Wigan, and features a single king post truss in the roof.