Description

SJ 79 NW
7/51

TYLDESLEY
HIGHER GREEN LANE
(east side)
Astley Green
Mining Museum
winding house


G.V.
II

Pit-head winding house, now museum. Brick with slate roof. 7
x 3 bays. Each bay has a round-arched window with iron
glazing bars within a recessed panel. Decorative brick eaves
band. Roundel panel in each gable. Doors in central bay on
east side and C20 patent glazing windows to the south
through which the drive ropes originally ran. Glazed tiles
and quarry-tile floor inside. The twin tandem compound steam
engine is the largest of its kind in Lancashire. It turned a
bi-cylindro conical winding drum. The machinery is virtually
complete and incorporates minor alterations of various dates
to comply with statutory safety requirements including a
brake engine.

Listing NGR: SJ7046199974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26456923

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