PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE AT SCREMERSTON OLD MINE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154687
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE AT SCREMERSTON OLD MINE
Statutory Address:: PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE AT SCREMERSTON OLD MINE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154687
Date first listed:: 18-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE AT SCREMERSTON OLD MINE
Statutory Address 1:: PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE AT SCREMERSTON OLD MINE

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.

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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PUMPING ENGINE HOUSE AT SCREMERSTON OLD MINE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ancroft
National Grid Reference:: NU 01001 48457

Summary

Pumping-engine house at coal mine. 1840.

History

The Jack Tar pit at Scremerston Colliery (originally known as Greenwich Colliery) was sunk in 1840. In 1873 it was being worked by the Scremerston and Shoreswood Coal Co. (previously Messrs Johnson and Carr) but closed in 1878. It was re-opened in 1913 but it does not appear that any coal was produced.

Details

Pumping-engine house at coal mine. 1840 for the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital.

Rock-faced stone with iron water tank. 3 storeys with cast-iron water-tank on top, 2 bays. Round-headed windows now boarded up. The heavily buttressed north elevation has a round headed doorway at ground floor level with a partly-blocked round-headed opening above for the beam of the engine.

Between 2nd-floor windows an inscription in raised stone surround with cornice over :-

ERECTED AD MDCCCXL

BY THE COMMISSIONERS

OF GREENWICH HOSPITAL

JOHN GREY ESQ. RECEIVER

MESSRS JOHNSON & CARRS

COLLIERY LESSEES

THOMAS FORSTER ESQ.

VIEWER & ENGINEER

MR. W. ELLIOT,TWEEDMOUTH

BUILDER

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/06/2014

Formerly listed as Water tower at Scremerston Old Mine.

Previously listed as Scremerston Old Mine.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 237903
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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, accessed from http://sihs.co.uk/features-coal.htm

Legal

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