Description

895-1/0/10048

CORN HILL (North side),
Hydraulic Engine House

21-AUG-02

GV II

Hydraulic engine house. c1890, built as part of the London and North Western Railway Company's Wolverhampton High Level development. Flemish Stretcher bond; double-gabled Welsh slate roof with rooflights. Square plan, in two bays, with boiler and engine house in each bay; hydraulic accumulator was located next to the engine house, to the east elevation (north end). Single storey. All elevations each have two recessed panels, the side elevations having dog-tooth cornices in blue brick. West elevation, facing The Old Steam Mill (grade II), has semi-circular arches to double-leaf plank doors. North elevation has two similar arches cast-iron multi-panelled windows, with centre hung top radial lights. Infilled window to south elevation. Two segmental-arched openings to former boilers in east elevation.

INTERIOR has iron roof trusses.

HISTORY: An integral functional part of a very fine grouping of industrial structures around Corn Hill. The interior housed two boilers and a cylinder steam engine, the hydraulic power thus produced (as water pressure) powering the cranes and ramps in the nearby Mill Street Goods Depot (listed grade II).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283289

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