Lovell Drift Fan House is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1984. Fan house.
Lovell Drift Fan House
- WRENN ID
- little-trefoil-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 April 1984
- Type
- Fan house
- Address
- Lovell Drift Fan House, Lazenby Bank Road, Guisborough
- OS grid reference
- NZ 580 188
- Coordinates
- 54.56181, -1.10385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lovell Drift Fan House is a disused cast slag-concrete structure that served as a ventilation fan housing for an ironstone mine, built around 1871. The building has a rectangular plan and features a gabled roof, although the roof covering is now missing. It has buttresses on the east and west sides and a ventilation tower on the west side. There is also a ramped tunnel leading into the hillside on the south side. This fan house is one of several large structures built for the Cleveland ironstone mines and is now recognized as the finest surviving example. It is included in the register for its industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Lovell Drift Fan House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings