Engine and Compressor House

Regularly coursed slate slabs with some roughly coursed rubblestone; slate roof with purple brick stack in roof slope to long wall on front. Engine house of rectangular plan with lean-tos attached to left gable end and to front on right, the latter being the compressor house. Boarded door and 6-paned window to right gable end of engine house. Associated with a collapsed blondin ropeway system.

The engine house has its winding drums, operated from a Bruce Peebles 3-phase motor of 1906 through reduction gearing, of which the motor, control mechanism and the liquid controller survive. The compressor house contains an electric motor and a horizontal single-cylinder Ingersoll Sargeant air compressor and receiving chamber.