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Kilmux Colliery Beam Engine Shaft

Ceres, Fife.

Kilmux Colliery, beam engine house, 630m SW of Kilmux House. Blocked shaft next to remains of Enginehouse.

(Kilmux Colliery, beam engine house, 630m SW of Kilmux House). The monument comprises the well-preserved remains of a beam engine house which served the small colliery at Kilmux from 1838.

The building is now roofless with the walls standing to their full height. The S, E and W walls are of squared, coursed rubble construction with ashlar quoins and ashlar facings around the openings: the N wall, which incorporates the large, arched aperture through which the beam protruded to connect with the pump rods of the mine shaft, is of dressed stone throughout. The footings of ancillary structures are visible to the immediate W and S of the building while to the S, adjacent to the field boundary, stand the footings of 2 cottages.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 October 1998.

Alternate Names: None recorded.