Cobb's Engine House (properly known as Windmill End Pumping Station) in
Rowley Regis,
West Midlands, England, is a
scheduled ancient monument
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and a Grade II listed building built around 1831.
It housed a stationary steam pump used to pump water firstly from Windmill End Colliery and later other mines in the area. Utilizing a shaft 525 feet deep, 1,600,000 litres of water were pumped from the mines into the canal daily.
It ceased work in 1928 and the
Newcomen type engine was moved to the
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,
Michigan
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in 1930.
The engine house originally had a cylinder floor at ground level and two floors above but they and the roof have gone, leaving the building as a shell. The chimney stands high and is at the base, successively narrowing to at the top.
It stands near Windmill End Junction in the
Warren's Hall local nature reserve
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, where the
Dudley No. 2 Canal and the Boshboil Arm meets the southern end of the
Netherton Tunnel Branch Canal. The area came into the possession of