Engine House and Associated Buildings From the Middle Engine Pit, About 15 Metres South East of the Elms

ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS FROM THE MIDDLE ENGINE PIT, ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE ELMS, GOLDEN VALLEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320976
Date first listed:
10-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Engine House and Associated Buildings From the Middle Engine Pit, About 15 Metres South East of the Elms
Statutory Address:
ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS FROM THE MIDDLE ENGINE PIT, ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE ELMS, GOLDEN VALLEY
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320976
Date first listed:
10-Jul-1985
List Entry Name:
Engine House and Associated Buildings From the Middle Engine Pit, About 15 Metres South East of the Elms
Statutory Address 1:
ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS FROM THE MIDDLE ENGINE PIT, ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE ELMS, GOLDEN VALLEY

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ENGINE HOUSE AND ASSOCIATED BUILDINGS FROM THE MIDDLE ENGINE PIT, ABOUT 15 METRES SOUTH EAST OF THE ELMS, GOLDEN VALLEY

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

District:
North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Nailsea
National Grid Reference:
ST 48221 70562

Details

NAILSEA C.P. GOLDEN VALLEY ST 47 SE 4/58 Engine house and associated buildings from the Middle Engine 10.7.85 Pit, about 15 metres south east of the Elms - II

Engine house of rotative beam engine, foundations of horse whim house, and weighbridge house. Buildings date from 1792-1837. Sandstone rubble, engine house has large quoins and plain tiled roof. Engine house of rectangular plan, formerly used for pumping by means of a drive shaft which emerged through the wall; engine house was formerly used as a water tower and is taller than it was originally. Foundations of horse whim house, about 1 1/2 metres high, about 3 metres north of engine house, used for winding during the sinking of the shaft and later for maintenance. Weighbridge house, small rectangular rubble building (overgrown with ivy at time of survey March 1985) about 30 metres to north. Map prepared by the Royal Engineers in 1830 showed the pit as 'Old Nailsea Pit' with workings 200 feet deep; Middle Engine Pit probably worked the Whites and Dungy seams over an area extending from the Trendlewood quarries to the lane down Golden Valley, and from Nailsea Park and Station Road to Trendlewood. (Sources: Nailsea and District Local History Society; BIAS).

Listing NGR: ST4822170562

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
33723
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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