Burrow Farm Engine House and Remains of Drying Shed About 10 Metres to West
BURROW FARM ENGINE HOUSE AND REMAINS OF DRYING SHED ABOUT 10 METRES TO WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345418
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Burrow Farm Engine House and Remains of Drying Shed About 10 Metres to West
- Statutory Address:
- BURROW FARM ENGINE HOUSE AND REMAINS OF DRYING SHED ABOUT 10 METRES TO WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345418
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Burrow Farm Engine House and Remains of Drying Shed About 10 Metres to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURROW FARM ENGINE HOUSE AND REMAINS OF DRYING SHED ABOUT 10 METRES TO WEST
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Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BURROW FARM ENGINE HOUSE AND REMAINS OF DRYING SHED ABOUT 10 METRES TO WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brompton Regis
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST0086434515
Details
ST03SW BROMPTON REGIS CP
5/11 Burrow Farm Engine house and
remains of drying shed about 10 m
to west
11.6.75
- II
Remains of mine engine house and shed. 1880, erected by Henry Skewis, mines captain. Flat bedded local stone, brick cap
to chimney. Plan: rectangular engine house for rotary beam engine, with chimney in north-east corner and detached shed
for drying miners' clothing. Two storeys, ruin and roofless, east front 3 square headed openings of differing sizes
under wooden lintels, circular chimney right with remains of moulded cap and large fissure. Interior empty. To west
random rubble walls of former drying shed. The steam driven rotary beam engine with a 25" cylinder operated a pump and
2 winding drums for Burrow Farm iron ore mine, operational between 1880 and 1883. This is the best surviving engine
house on the Brendon hills, (Greenfield, Exmoor Review, 1981).
Listing NGR: ST0086434515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Greenfield, , Exmoor Review in Exmoor Review, (1981)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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