Short Description:
Engine House
Issued to
Manda Forster | 17/04/2018
Interpretation
- No Interpretations
Sketch Photo
Description
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- The engine house is a three-storey, two-bay oval tower built on a rectangular plinth, finished with a crenelated parapet, which is externally supported on dressed corbels. Attached to the west side of the engine house is a sandstone chimney with a brick arched stoke hole at its base and a crenelated parapet to match that of the engine house. The engine house has a date-stone of ‘1844’ set above the drive shaft aperture on the ground floor which faces south towards the gin pit. There is a blocked aperture in the northern end of the rectangular base, which would have led out to the adjacent shaft. A block of rubble core is set against the northeastern corner of the engine house, which may have linked / buttressed the engine house to the shaft surround. While the external skin of the engine house is structurally sound there are sections of the internal skin that have collapsed, and most notably around the north-western window of the first floor.