Scott's Pit Engine House is a Grade II* listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 September 2003. Engine house.
Scott's Pit Engine House
- WRENN ID
- low-soffit-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Neath and Swansea East MP: Carolyn Harris (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 September 2003
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Scott's Pit Engine House, Heol-Las, Birchgrove
- OS grid reference
- SS 697 983
- Coordinates
- 51.66833, -3.88527
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Scott's Pit Engine House is a Cornish engine house constructed from rubble stone, topped with a 20th-century metal sheet roof. It features a large external chimney breast on the rear wall, which is stepped in four stages; the first two stages are large, while the upper two are smaller, culminating in a tapering brick stack.
The front wall has a prominent segmental arched gable opening, supported by stone voussoirs for the beam, along with a narrower segmental arch opening at ground level. The south side is elevated due to the sloping ground and includes a large ground floor opening with a segmental arch made of red brick. To the right and above this opening is a cambered-headed door with an orange brick head. Above that, there is a blocked small arched opening also with an orange brick head, and further up, another cambered-arched door with an orange brick head. The orange brick heads are of a later date than the red brick.
On the north side, there is a first-floor camber-headed door with an orange brick head, above which is a small arched opening with an orange brick head, and to the right of this is another cambered-headed door.
All the internal floors have been removed, but the building retains a large platform for the cylinder.
Local climate
Scott's Pit Engine House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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