Roadside Traction Engine Shed at South Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Traction engine shed.
Roadside Traction Engine Shed at South Farm
- WRENN ID
- kindled-jade-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Traction engine shed
- Address
- Roadside Traction Engine Shed at South Farm, B1339, Embleton
- OS grid reference
- NU 226 215
- Coordinates
- 55.4869, -1.64261
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The roadside traction engine shed at South Farm dates from the mid-19th century. It is constructed of whinstone rubble with tooled-and-margined sandstone quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The rectangular building faces the road and is located at the eastern end of a range that includes cartsheds and a granary. The front features two tall segment-headed arches that hold boarded doors. The roof is pyramidal and was formerly equipped with a central louvre or vent. Each side of the building has a stepped buttress on the front wall and a part-slatted window with external bars; the lower two-bay section to the right of the right return also has similar windows. There is a boarded door at the rear.
Inside, the shed has two queen-post roof trusses. The altered two-storey part of the range to the west is not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Roadside Traction Engine Shed at South Farm receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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