Musgrave engine house and chimney is a Grade II* listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 3 January 1980. Engine house. 1 related planning application.
Musgrave engine house and chimney
- WRENN ID
- narrow-plaster-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1980
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
A two storey building with a hipped roof, a brick passage for the rope drive and a tall brick chimney at its south-west corner. It is constructed of grey brick (made at the copperworks) with red brick bands to the cills, lintols and eaves cornice. The timber roof was slated. There are four tall windows to the main storey on each long elevation, square headed with timber window frames. The west wall has a large doorway with remains of an external staircase. The east end features the open passage to the rope drive and a high-level doorway. The rope drive passes out of the building to a set of gears and intact rolling mills. The chimney is of square section, slightly tapering, in brown brick with iron banding towards the top.
The building is lined with red brick on the interior, and has a main floor containing the engine, with a service basement below. The engine is one of the first uniflow type steam engines made in Britain, manufactured by John Musgrave and Sons of Bolton in 1910. The engine retains its cylinder and piston, valve gear, crank, drive shaft and flywheel. The uniflow type engine was considered the most efficient development of the steam engine. This is thought to be the only example remaining in Wales.
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