Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Engine house.
Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit
- WRENN ID
- late-finial-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit, Cinderford
- OS grid reference
- SO 658 165
- Coordinates
- 51.84647, -2.49706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bull Engine House at Fairplay Pit is a mid to late 19th-century colliery pumping engine house. It features squared rubble walls with rock-faced quoins and is a rectangular building that stands about 20 feet high. One end has a low extension that contains a T-shaped well. The long elevation includes a plinth and a slight offset just over halfway up, with two small square openings to the right of center that are partly brick quoined, and a semi-circular headed opening to the left with brick voussoirs. The extension on the left shows scars of brick walls rising on either side of a large semi-circular headed opening, which has rock-faced voussoirs and is now filled in. The building once housed a 76-inch cylinder bull engine with a 12-foot stroke for pumping water out of the mine. This structure is an impressive example of a colliery building, with very few surviving in the Forest of Dean area.
Local climate
Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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