Description

WRAXALL AND FAILAND

121/0/10017 TYNTESFIELD PARK
29-APR-02 Engine House and Saw Mill
(formerly listed as Gas works
and Saw Mill)

GV II

Country house estate engine house and saw mill. Circa 1865-70. Engine house: coursed stone with red brick dressings and clay plain tile roofs with gable ends. Saw mill: rock-faced stone rubble and gable-ended roof clad in Bridgwater tiles. Lateral and axial brick stacks.
PLAN: Engine house is main range on left with cross-wing on right. Saw mill is situated directly to right and parallel to the engine house cross-wing and is now linked to the engine house.
Victorian Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: Engine house: single storey main range on left with glazed ridge-light, doorway and 2-light stone mullion window on front; gabled cross-wing on right with large treble-chamfered pointed arch brick doorway with plank double doors with wrought-iron strap hinges and flanking buttresses and 4-light stone mullion window above in large pointed arch brick recess; lateral stack on right side of cross-wing with polygonal brick shaft and moulded stone cap and axial stack between ranges with gabled canopy. The rear gable of cross-wing has large 6-light stone mullion window and ventilator in gable. Saw mill on right [SE] with open gable-ended front, the gable boarded; the rear gable end has large doorway opening.
INTERIOR of main range of engine house open to roof with glazed ridge-light. The saw mill is open to tie-beam truss roof.
A good example of a Victorian country house estate engine house and saw mill.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26314543

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)