Winding Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Engine house. 1 related planning application.
Winding Engine House
- WRENN ID
- upper-lantern-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Torfaen
- Constituency
- Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1995
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Winding Engine House, Big Pit Mining Museum, Blaenavon
- OS grid reference
- SO 238 087
- Coordinates
- 51.7722, -3.10476
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Winding Engine House is a single-storey, rectangular brick building with a pitched roof, dating from the 19th century. It features three bays and has a small extension to the north-east. The south-east elevation includes a brick ramp leading to central double doors, with flanking windows that have metal glazing bars, brick sills, and concrete lintels. On the north-west elevation, there is a doorway accessed by steps, accompanied by two windows to the north. The north-east gable has an external flight of steps and a large window with three lights, concrete mullions, and a cast iron lintel, through which the winding cable runs. A second cable passes through a small opening above this window. Below the large window, there are three square-headed openings, also with cast iron lintels, featuring wooden doors that are set back.
Internally, the walls are partly tiled, and the floor is covered with polished stone tiles. The driver's cabin and the winding engine remain in place.
Local climate
Winding Engine House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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