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© Mr John Robins
IoE Number:
265282
Location:
FORMER ENGINE HOUSE AT ST 1752 4009, SANDY LANE (east side)
HOLFORD, WEST SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mr John Robins
Date Photographed:
30 June 2001
Date listed:
30 November 1987
Date of last amendment:
30 November 1987
Grade
II
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ST 14 SE HOLFORD SANDY LANE
(east side)
6/205 Doddington
Former engine house at
ST 1752 4009
- II
Engine House. 1820. Rubblestone brought to course; roof removed. 2 stages,
the upper stage recessed. Timber lintels to openings. Gable has a wide
central entrance with round brick arch; above it a blocked opening to each
stage. A window opening to one side wall and a window and two altered doorways
to the other. The Engine House was erected in connection with a copper
mine at Doddington, Holford. The steam-raising plant is thought to have
been located in a less permanent lean-to structure adjoining the Engine
House. In state of dereliction at time of listing.
Men and Mining on the Quantocks, John R Hamilton, 1970