Jane Pit Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1985. Industrial.
Jane Pit Engine House
- WRENN ID
- worn-chamber-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Whitehaven and Workington MP: Josh MacAlister (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1985
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Jane Pit Engine House, Mossbay Road, Workington
- OS grid reference
- NX 995 277
- Coordinates
- 54.6351, -3.55818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Jane Pit Engine House is a Grade II listed building located on Mossbay Road in Workington. Constructed in 1843 for the Curwen family, this engine house served the now-disused Jane Pit. It is built from hammer-dressed calciferous and pink sandstone and features a battlemented parapet and a bracketed cornice, all resting on a rectangular plinth. The structure is three stories high and has a two-bay oval tower, with a taller circular chimney located at the rear. The building includes doorways and windows at various levels, all set in weathered architraves, which are currently open and barred. The chimney has brick-arched stoke holes at its base, and the battlemented parapet below the neck of the chimney matches that of the engine house. The pumping operations at this pit ceased in 1875.
Local climate
Jane Pit Engine House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,560 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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