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Plumbley Colliery is a nineteenth-century coal mining site situated approximately 600 metres north-east of Roundhill Cottages in Derbyshire. The colliery is notable for the survival of the Seldom Seen engine house, a substantial stone structure that served the pumping and winding operations essential to extracting coal from the underground seams. The engine house represents the industrial infrastructure typical of Derbyshire's coalfield development during the nineteenth century, when steam-powered machinery became fundamental to deep mining operations. The site retains archaeological significance as evidence of the region's intensive exploitation of coal reserves and the technological systems that supported Victorian-era mineral extraction.
Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill Cottages is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1017746. View the official record →
Plumbley Colliery is a nineteenth-century coal mining site situated approximately 600 metres north-east of Roundhill Cottages in Derbyshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1017746.
Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill Cottages is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1017746.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tramway embankment (1.8 km), Coke ovens, 120m north east of Summerley House (5.5 km), Standing cross (6.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill Cottages's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Plumbley Colliery including Seldom Seen engine house, 600m north east of Roundhill Cottages stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.