Fan
Category
Historic Services / Heating and ventilation
Date
Unknown
Materials
unspecified
Collection
Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire
NT 1535144
Summary
A historic system comprising of a large electric fan Blackman, Wattles Patent that used to ventilate the combustion area.The original gas retorts have been removed. There are fairly extensive remains of the coal gas installation that dates from the 1870s and steam boiler for electricity generation in the gas house. See Archaeological Survey W.L. Matthews 1989 (extracts with photographs).