Winding Engine House and Boiler House at the Colliery
WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WINDING ENGINE HOUSE AND BOILER HOUSE AT THE COLLIERY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109405
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Atkinson, F, The Industrial Archaeology of North East England, (1974)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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