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
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
Engine house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SO 61 NE CINDERFORD -

at NGR SO 658165 Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit

II

Colliery pumping engine house, mid to late C19; squared rubble walls with rock-faced quoins. Rectangular building, now about 20 ft high, with low extension to one end containing T shaped well. Long elevation has plinth, slight offset just over half way up, with two small square openings above to right of centre, partly brick quoined, and semi-circular headed opening to left with brick voussoirs. Extension to left, scars of brick walls rise wither side of large semi-circular headed opening, with rock-faced voussoirs, now filled in. Contained 76" cylinder bull engine with 12 ft stroke for pumping out mine. Impressive example of colliery building, very few of which survive in Forest. (Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset, 1977 report).

Listing NGR: SO6585616546

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