C19 Engine House And Remains Of C19 Water Engine Within, 100 Metres South-West Of Abbey

This is a 19th-century engine house and the remains of a 19th-century water engine, located 100 meters south-west of Stoneleigh Abbey. It was built around 1813, likely by C.S. Smith for Thomas Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey. The structure is made of ashlar stone and has a plain tile roof. It is a single-storey building with three bays by one bay, designed in the Gothic Revival style, featuring diagonal buttresses and a blocking course. The openings have 4-centred arches with hood moulds. Most windows are blocked but originally had stone tracery and remnants of cast-iron glazing bars. Each side has three openings, with the northern side having a doorway. At each end, there is a two-light window. To the south, there is a circular brick well-head with a shallow pitched stone slab roof and a projection on the pump-house side that has a wooden door. Inside, there is a common rafter roof with louvres in the gables, and it contains the original water wheel, sluice, and a three-throw pump.