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Latitude: 55.4667 / 55°28'0"N
Longitude: -4.2957 / 4°17'44"W
OS Eastings: 254961
OS Northings: 621602
OS Grid: NS549216
Mapcode National: GBR 3Q.XNKZ
Mapcode Global: WH3QZ.ZVKJ
Plus Code: 9C7QFP83+MP
Entry Name: Highhouse Colliery
Listing Name: Highhouse Industrial Estate Headframe and Steam Winding Engine in House
Listing Date: 4 September 1992
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 338214
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6580
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200338214
Location: Auchinleck
County: East Ayrshire
Electoral Ward: Ballochmyle
Parish: Auchinleck
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Winding engine and house c1896, headframe c1968.
ENGINE HOUSE single storey, brick, 2 by 3-bay, flat roofed. Lower part of walls have pilasters separating bays, with linking frieze above 2 courses of diagonally set bricks. Large opening inserted in N wall. Upper part of walls later, of redder brick. Flat steel roof, probably replaed piended roof, has guides for winding ropes and twin bell-mouthed exhaust pipes from engines. Pipe from boilers (removed) and steam trap on S wall.
ENGINE: by Grant, Ritchie and Co Ltd, Kilmarnock, 2-cylinder horizontal, cylinders 0.5 by 1.22mm, drum (later) 3.03m by 2.01m, with Steohenson's link motion.
HEADFRAME built to replace wooden frame, and hence has dog-leg raking struts to span engine house. Riveted steel construction with 2 pulleys side by side. Sits over capped shaft.
Apart from Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, only steam winding engine in Scotland, still IN SITU. Headframe probably last 'traditional' one built in Scotland. Group preserved as feature of industrial estate on site of colliery (closed 1983); incorporating several adapted colliery buildings.
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