WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120965
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1970
List Entry Name:: WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY
Statutory Address:: WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120965
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1970
List Entry Name:: WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY
Statutory Address 1:: WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Urpeth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 21980 54327

Details

URPETH BEAMISH OPEN-AIR MUSEUM NZ 25 SW 219543 3/61 Winding engine house and boiler house at The Colliery 11.12.70 II

Winding engine house and boiler house. Previously listed at Chophill, Beamish Colliery (2nd. Pit). Built 1855, moved and rebuilt at Beamish Open Air Museum in 1974. Coursed stone with squared stone and brick dressings; Welsh slate roofs.

Tall, rectangular-plan, gable-fronted engine house. Flush quoins. Scattered openings; some under segmental relieving arches of brick. 2 wood corbels set high on front supported an A-frame wooden headstock (headstock dismantled at time of survey and to be replaced). Low-pitched roof with coped gables.

Single-storey boiler house on rear has later external brick stairway on left return; several 8-pane fixed lights and a boarded door; roof hipped at rear.

The engine house is the only surviving example in the County of a type once common in the Northern coalfield. ,

(F. Atkinson, Industrial Archaeology in the North-East of England, 1974).

Listing NGR: NZ2198054327

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Legacy System number:: 109405
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Sources

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Atkinson, F, The Industrial Archaeology of North East England, (1974)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.