Description

ACOMB HALFWAY HOUSE COTTAGES
NY 96 NW NY 931672
4/23 Cottage occupied by
Mr.Iley, with
adjacent outbuildings
and wall attached

GV II

Engine house for Fallowfield lead mine, now cottage. 1779, extended C19.
Rubble with tooled quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof. Rectangular engine
house with projecting square stack on north and pent additions to either side.
South elevation: centre part 2 storeys on basement, with flanking single-storey
pent additions and another similar lower addition on far right. 4-pane casements
under timber lintels in centre; in left addition C20 window and in right renewed
16-pane sash under timber lintel. Centre and additions to right each have
boarded basement door. Rear elevation shows 3-stage stack with band just below
top; renewed door with 3-pane overlight to right. Attached section of wall of
another C18 building on far right.

Important industrial archaeological survival.

Listing NGR: NY9310567242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26296873

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Recommended Books

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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]