House-built engine

House-built Newcomen atmospheric engine
The tower at Goldney Hall. A folly, it is an extravagant example of an engine house for a water well beam engine.

A house-built engine is a stationary steam engine that is built into an engine house, such that it uses the masonry of the engine house as an integral part of the support of the engine.[1]

  1. ^ Crowley, T.E. (1982). The Beam Engine. Senecio Publishing. p. 3. ISBN 0-906831-02-4.