Cobbs Engine House and Chimney Warrens Hall Park
COBBS ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY WARRENS HALL PARK, WINDMILL END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229552
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Cobbs Engine House and Chimney Warrens Hall Park
- Statutory Address:
- COBBS ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY WARRENS HALL PARK, WINDMILL END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1229552
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Cobbs Engine House and Chimney Warrens Hall Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBBS ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY WARRENS HALL PARK, WINDMILL END
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:
- COBBS ENGINE HOUSE AND CHIMNEY WARRENS HALL PARK, WINDMILL END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95406 88321
Details
SO 98 NE
8/169
2.8.72
SANDWELL MB
WINDMILL END
Rowley Regis
Cobbs Engine House and chimney (formerly listed under Warley CB) Warrens Hall Park
II
Mine pumping engine house, now disused. Circa 1831. Erected by Sir Horace
St Paul, later owned by Staffordshire Mines Drainage Commission. Brick. Now
roofless. Originally of three storeys, with a cylinder floor at ground level,
chamber floor above, and a bob or beam loft. The south gable wall is thicker
than the others and has a plug rod portal on the ground floor, with a flat head,
and a bob portal under the apex with round arch. The east and west walls both
have a ground floor window with segmental head. The north gable wall has a
cylinder portal on the ground floor, an opening to the middle storey with round
head, and two smaller openings above. The boiler chimney tapers from 11' 6"
square at the base to 4 feet at the top and is 95 feet high. Originally contained
a single-acting condensing engine. A winding engine of Newcomen type was removed
from the site in 1928 and transferred to the Henry Ford Museum, Michegan, USA.
The engine house is the earliest surviving example of its type and one of the
few engine houses left in the Black Country. Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: SO9540688321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 404346
- 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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