Engine Pond is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. A Industrial Engine pond.
Engine Pond
- WRENN ID
- grim-crypt-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine pond
- Period
- Industrial
- Address
- Engine Pond, Church Street, Etherley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 171 283
- Coordinates
- 54.64974, -1.73643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Engine pond, built in 1825 for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is a circular structure about 8 metres across, made with rubble sandstone walls. It features a small square recess on the west side and a long curved channel on the east side that extends towards the railway line. The pond, which still holds water as of 2023, is fed by a stream from the west.
This rare surviving stone structure on the northern section of the railway provided water for the boilers of the stationary steam engine that powered the Etherley Inclines. The engine house with its boiler was located just southeast of the pond. To the north of the pond, there is a depression marking the site of a second circular pond. The surrounding area, including this listed pond, is part of a Scheduled Monument known as ‘Stockton & Darlington Railway: Etherley Inclines, summit and upper sections’.
Local climate
Engine Pond receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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