Eastern Winding House and Shaft Head Building (Winder and Shaft No 1)
EASTERN WINDING HOUSE AND SHAFT HEAD BUILDING (WINDER AND SHAFT NO 1)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153123
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Eastern Winding House and Shaft Head Building (Winder and Shaft No 1)
- Statutory Address:
- EASTERN WINDING HOUSE AND SHAFT HEAD BUILDING (WINDER AND SHAFT NO 1)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153123
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Eastern Winding House and Shaft Head Building (Winder and Shaft No 1)
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTERN WINDING HOUSE AND SHAFT HEAD BUILDING (WINDER AND SHAFT NO 1)
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.
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:
- EASTERN WINDING HOUSE AND SHAFT HEAD BUILDING (WINDER AND SHAFT NO 1)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 28935 88429
Details
ASHINGTON WOODHORN COLLIERY NZ 28 NE 2/43 Eastern winding house and shaft 22/5/86 head building (Winder and Shaft No. 1) GV II*
Winding house and shaft head gear, c.1894 with later alterations. Yellow Ashington brick with gauged arches to doors and windows. Roof of late C20 synthetic sheeting; shaft head gear cast iron with brick casing heightened in red brick. Rectangular 3-storey winding house with shaft to south. 3-bay side walls and 2-bay rear of winding house have bays defined by pilasters rising to stepped-and-cogged eaves cornice and large round-arched windows holding metal-framed casements; central window on east replaced by late C20 double doors onto platform. Round-arched doorways and windows to lower floors, and arched doorway onto walkway from upper floor to cage. Hipped roof with flat-topped dormer and half dormer for winding cables, and raised louvre on ridge.
Shaft head gear has skeletal frame partly encased in rectangular structure with 4 round-arched openings on east.
Sinking of shaft commenced 1894; first coal produced Feb. 13, 1901. Steam engine replaced by electric winder in 1975.
Superstructure of shaft head building and lower flat-roofed additions to west and south are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2893588429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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