Keldheads Lead Mine Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1986. Industrial building.
Keldheads Lead Mine Buildings
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-plaster-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1986
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Keldheads Lead Mine Buildings, Keldheads Lane, Preston-Under-Scar
- OS grid reference
- SE 079 907
- Coordinates
- 54.31251, -1.87925
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Keldheads Lead Mine Buildings, dating from the mid-19th century, are now derelict and include a former chimney, engine house, stables, and stores. The buildings are constructed of rubble. The chimney has a square plan, stands approximately 12 metres high, features a circular hole at its base, and has a cornice at the top. The large engine house is partially below road level and has round-arched openings. There is also an adjacent stable and stores building with a timber roof structure. The engine house was originally used for a pumping engine in the lead mine shaft. After the closure of Keldheads Mine in the late 19th century, the buildings were repurposed for use by a nearby quarry, with the chimney later serving a coal-fired electricity generating plant.
Local climate
Keldheads Lead Mine Buildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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