Winding Engine House, Newbury Colliery is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1997. A Victorian Engine house.
Winding Engine House, Newbury Colliery
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-chalk-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1997
- Type
- Engine house
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Winding Engine House, Newbury Colliery, Coleford
- OS grid reference
- ST 695 497
- Coordinates
- 51.24635, -2.4372
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Winding Engine House at Newbury Colliery, built around 1860, is a two-storey structure made of roughly coursed dressed limestone, featuring hammer-dressed architraves and quoins, topped with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The building has a rectangular plan, with a bob wall in the gable end that includes a corrugated iron panel over an opening and a keyed semi-circular arch leading to the basement level. The return and rear elevations also display keyed semi-circular arched openings above similar arched openings at the basement level. Although the interior was not inspected, this engine house is significant as it relates to the expansion of coal production at the site, which began in 1799, particularly following the sinking and opening of the Mackintosh shaft in 1867. It is recognized as the best surviving example of an engine house from the Mendip area coalfields and holds national importance as a remnant of the coal industry.
Local climate
Winding Engine House, Newbury Colliery receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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