Engine House at Cononley Lead Mine is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Engine house.
Engine House at Cononley Lead Mine
- WRENN ID
- fallow-remnant-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House at Cononley Lead Mine, Stockshott Lane
- OS grid reference
- SD 979 461
- Coordinates
- 53.91123, -2.0328
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House at Cononley Lead Mine is a building dating from around 1842, likely designed by Stephen Eddy for the Duke of Devonshire. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with some brick patching and currently has no roof. The building is two storeys high and rectangular in shape, featuring ashlar quoins.
On the west gable end, there are two pointed arched openings, one larger than the other, both adorned with radiating voussoirs and raised keystones. The sides of the building have blocked openings that once housed machinery. The east gable wall includes a plain doorcase with a timber lintel to the right, and above it are two square openings, one directly above the other. The north side has brick blocking where a former arched opening was located to the right, with a square opening and timber lintel at the centre and a small blocked opening above. The south wall is mostly blank, except for remnants of rubble walling that indicate the location of a former boiler house.
The interior of the engine house has no surviving machinery. This building is part of a group of lead mine structures at Cononley, which were built by the Duke of Devonshire's agent between 1842 and 1847.
Local climate
Engine House at Cononley Lead Mine sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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