Meadow (or City) Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 September 1977. Engine house.

Meadow (or City) Engine House

WRENN ID
cold-pier-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
12 September 1977
Type
Engine house
Address
Meadow (or City) Engine House, Minera
OS grid reference
SJ 274 509
Coordinates
53.05073, -3.08303
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Meadow (or City) Engine House is a mid-19th century engine house of the Cornish type. This three-storey rectangular building is constructed from coursed rubble stone with quoins at the corners. It features a modern slate roof with painted wooden barge boards. The structure stands approximately 11 meters high to the eaves, measuring 5 meters wide and 6 meters long.

On the northwest elevation, there are recently inserted 16-pane hornless sash windows with wooden lintels on the first and second floors, along with double boarded doors set in a round-arched entrance made of dressed stone on the ground floor. Between the ground floor door and the first floor window, as well as between the first and second floor windows, there are two small square recesses.

The southwest and northeast elevations have similar single openings on the first and second floors, with single 16-pane hornless sash windows on the ground floors. The southeast front features a boarded door on the ground floor, with a pair of small square openings above at approximately 3.5 meters from the ground, and another similar pair located about 5 meters above ground. At the second floor level, there is a restored wooden platform that is about 3 meters wide and projects approximately 3 meters outward. Above this platform, two windows are set in a renewed horizontally-boarded wall that reaches the ridge.

Immediately to the southeast, there is restored mining winding machinery housed in a massive four-legged timber frame.

Local climate

Meadow (or City) Engine House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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