Explosives magazine for Skelton Shaft iron mines is a Grade II listed building in the Redcar and Cleveland local planning authority area, England. A 1860s or 1870s Explosives magazine.
Explosives magazine for Skelton Shaft iron mines
- WRENN ID
- muted-step-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland MP: Luke Myer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Explosives magazine
- Period
- 1860s or 1870s
- OS grid reference
- NZ 638 172
- Coordinates
- 54.5462, -1.01467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a former explosives magazine built in the 1860s or 1870s for Bell Brothers' Skelton ironstone mines. The building is made of partially rendered red brick and was originally topped with a Welsh slate roof.
The structure features a barrel-vaulted design, with buttresses at both ends that rise to create gables. There are also two additional buttresses in the middle that support a central roof truss. A single entry is located in the eastern gable end. The brickwork was once fully rendered and covered in pitch, but this covering is now only partially intact. At the time of inspection, the roof structure was in a fragmentary state, with only a few slates remaining and some rafters missing.
Local climate
Explosives magazine for Skelton Shaft iron mines receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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