Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit
BULL ENGINE HOUSE, FAIRPLAY PIT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186460
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit
- Statutory Address:
- BULL ENGINE HOUSE, FAIRPLAY PIT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186460
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit
- Statutory Address 1:
- BULL ENGINE HOUSE, FAIRPLAY PIT
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:
- BULL ENGINE HOUSE, FAIRPLAY PIT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cinderford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 65856 16546
Details
SO 61 NE CINDERFORD -
at NGR SO 658165 Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit
II
Colliery pumping engine house, mid to late C19; squared rubble walls with rock-faced quoins. Rectangular building, now about 20 ft high, with low extension to one end containing T shaped well. Long elevation has plinth, slight offset just over half way up, with two small square openings above to right of centre, partly brick quoined, and semi-circular headed opening to left with brick voussoirs. Extension to left, scars of brick walls rise wither side of large semi-circular headed opening, with rock-faced voussoirs, now filled in. Contained 76" cylinder bull engine with 12 ft stroke for pumping out mine. Impressive example of colliery building, very few of which survive in Forest. (Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset, 1977 report).
Listing NGR: SO6585616546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354091
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset Report in Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset Report, (1977)
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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