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Smethwick Engine House is a Grade II listed structure dating from the early nineteenth century, located in Staffordshire. The building housed a Boulton and Watt beam engine, which served the local canal and industrial infrastructure of the region during the height of the Industrial Revolution. The engine house represents an important survival of industrial heritage from this period, demonstrating the engineering innovations that characterised early nineteenth-century manufacturing and transport networks. The structure reflects the architectural conventions of industrial building design contemporary to its construction.
Smethwick Engine House is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005887. View the official record →
Smethwick Engine House is a Grade II listed structure dating from the early nineteenth century, located in Staffordshire. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005887.
Smethwick Engine House 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 1005887.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Engine Arm Aqueduct, Warley (0.3 km), Remains of the Boulton and Watt Soho foundry and mint, Birmingham Canal, Smethwick (0.8 km), Smeaton's Summit Bridge (1.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Smethwick Engine House'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.
Smethwick Engine House stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.