Description

SO 61 NE CINDERFORD -

at NGR SO 658165 Bull Engine House, Fairplay Pit

II

Colliery pumping engine house, mid to late C19; squared rubble
walls with rock-faced quoins. Rectangular building, now about 20 ft high, with
low extension to one end containing T shaped well. Long elevation has plinth,
slight offset just over half way up, with two small square openings above to right
of centre, partly brick quoined, and semi-circular headed opening to left with
brick voussoirs. Extension to left, scars of brick walls rise wither side of
large semi-circular headed opening, with rock-faced voussoirs, now filled in.
Contained 76" cylinder bull engine with 12 ft stroke for pumping out mine.
Impressive example of colliery building, very few of which survive in Forest.
(Committee for Rescue Archaeology in Avon, Gloucestershire and Somerset, 1977 report).

Listing NGR: SO6585616546

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481704

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Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  For the Record
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings