Description

SD 94 NE CONONLEY STOCKSHOTT LANE
(East Side)
2/120
Engine House at Cononley
Lead Mine

GV II

Engine house, c 1842, probably by Stephen Eddy, for the Duke of Devonshire. Coursed
squared stone with some brick patching, roofless. Two storeys, rectangular on plan.
Ashlar quoins. West gable end has 2 pointed arched openings, one above the other,
that below larger than that above. Both with radiating voussoirs and raised keystones.
Blocked openings to sides and below which formerly housed machinery. East gable wall
has plain doorcase below timber lintel to right. Above a square opening and above
again a similar opening to centre. North side has brick blocking to former arched
opening to right. Square opening with timber lintel to centre and small blocked open-
ing above. South wall blank except for remains of rubble walling to former boiler house.
Interior has no machinery surviving. Part of a group of lead mine buildings at Cononley
which were erected by the Duke of Devonshire's agent between 1842 and 1847.

Listing NGR: SD9793646119

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603282

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Recommended Books

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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)