Burrow Farm Engine House And Remains Of Drying Shed About 10 Metres To West

Burrow Farm Engine House and the remains of a drying shed, built in 1880 by Henry Skewis, mines captain, are located about 10 meters to the west. The structure is made of flat bedded local stone with a brick cap on the chimney. The engine house is rectangular and designed for a rotary beam engine, featuring a chimney in the northeast corner and a detached shed for drying miners' clothing. It stands two storeys high but is now a ruin and roofless. The east front has three square-headed openings of varying sizes, each with wooden lintels, and a circular chimney to the right, which has a moulded cap and a large fissure. The interior is empty. To the west, there are random rubble walls from the former drying shed. The steam-driven rotary beam engine, which had a 25-inch cylinder, was used to operate a pump and two winding drums for the Burrow Farm iron ore mine, which was in operation from 1880 to 1883. This site is noted as the best surviving engine house on the Brendon Hills, as mentioned in the Exmoor Review in 1981.