Meadow (or City) Engine House

Mid-C19 engine house of the Cornish type. Three-storey rectangular engine house in coursed rubble stone with quoins at angles. Modern slate roof of slate with painted wooden barge boards. Structure is some 11m high to eaves, 5m wide and 6m long. NW elevation has recently inserted 16-pane hornless sashes with wood lintel on first and second floors and double boarded doors in a round-arched entrance of dressed stone on ground floor. There are two small square recesses between the ground floor door and first floor window and again between the first and second floor windows. SW and NE elevations have single similar openings to first and second floors with single 16-pane hornless sashes on ground floors. SE front has boarded door on ground floor, a pair of small square openings above some 3.5m from ground level with similar pair some 5m above ground. At second floor level, a restored wooden platform some 3m wide projects approximately 3m. Above the platform are two windows set in renewed horizontally-boarded wall to the ridge.

Immediately SE is restored mining winding machinery in massive four legged timber frame.