Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Nuneaton and Bedworth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1988. Engine house.
Engine House
- WRENN ID
- lone-shingle-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1988
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH SUTTON STOP side) SP38SE (North-west side) Hawkesbury Junction 8/75 Engine House 31/07/84 GV II
Canal engine house. c.1837. Possibly by John Sinclair, engineer to the Coventry Canal Company. English bond blue brick with dentil cornice. Late C20 plain-tile shallow-hipped roof. 3 storeys; 2-window range to canal. Right bay projects very slightly, but cornice is unbroken. Round-arched openings throughout. Windows are all-blocked, mostly late C20, except for right bay on top floor. Return sides have blocked top-floor windows. Left return side has doorway. Right return side has large blocked opening, Tall tapering octagonal chimney attached to rear corner has moulded brick cornice. To rear are fragments of a single-storey range demolished late C20. The building formerly housed a Newcomen pumping engine used to maintain the canal level. (Bouches, C.T.G.: Trans. of the Newcomer Society: Vol XXXV, 1962-63, pp59-66)
Listing NGR: SP3620784618
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