Haswell Colliery engine house, 180m north west of Plough Farm - List Entry
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Description
".....The surrounding colliery site has been landscaped and the monument, known locally as the Haswell Arch, stands isolated as a memorial to the 1844 disaster. The monument includes the remains of a beam pumping engine house of c.1830- 1840, a rare survival within the North East Coalfield. It is built largely of random, roughly dressed and coursed Magnesian Limestone. Three external walls remain standing, whilst the west wall will survive as a buried feature. The surviving walls have an external batter widening to a base approximately 2m thick. The east wall stands to the eaves line and has a large top floor opening through which the beam of the engine originally passed. A smaller opening, situated immediately below, is thought to have provided access to the condensing equipment....." -
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Link: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1018229
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