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Latitude: 52.4583 / 52°27'29"N
Longitude: -1.4686 / 1°28'6"W
OS Eastings: 436207
OS Northings: 284618
OS Grid: SP362846
Mapcode National: GBR HQ1.GS
Mapcode Global: VHBWS.HGHT
Plus Code: 9C4WFG5J+8H
Entry Name: Engine House
Listing Date: 11 February 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1365077
English Heritage Legacy ID: 308617
ID on this website: 101365077
Location: Hawkesbury, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwickshire, CV6
County: Warwickshire
District: Nuneaton and Bedworth
Electoral Ward/Division: Poplar
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Coventry
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Longford St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
Tagged with: Engine house
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH SUTTON STOP side)
SP38SE (North-west side)
Hawkesbury Junction
8/75 Engine House
31/07/84
GV II
Canal engine house. c.1837. Possibly by John Sinclair, engineer to the Coventry
Canal Company. English bond blue brick with dentil cornice. Late C20 plain-tile
shallow-hipped roof. 3 storeys; 2-window range to canal. Right bay projects very
slightly, but cornice is unbroken. Round-arched openings throughout. Windows are
all-blocked, mostly late C20, except for right bay on top floor. Return sides
have blocked top-floor windows. Left return side has doorway. Right return side
has large blocked opening, Tall tapering octagonal chimney attached to rear
corner has moulded brick cornice. To rear are fragments of a single-storey range
demolished late C20. The building formerly housed a Newcomen pumping engine used
to maintain the canal level.
(Bouches, C.T.G.: Trans. of the Newcomer Society: Vol XXXV, 1962-63, pp59-66)
Listing NGR: SP3620784618
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