Engine House to East of Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Engine house.

Engine House to East of Pumping Station

WRENN ID
last-chapel-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Houghton and Sunderland South MP: Bridget Phillipson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1985
Type
Engine house
OS grid reference
NZ 354 517
Coordinates
54.85951, -1.44946
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The engine house, built in 1890 by J.E. Wolfe, who was the resident engineer for the Sunderland and South Shields Water Company, is located to the east of the pumping station in Houghton-le-Spring. It is a single-storey structure made of brick, featuring three bays. The central door is flanked by round-headed windows set within brick panels, and it has a plinth with sloping terracotta cills. The hipped roof is adorned with clove-shaped terracotta finials. Additionally, there is brick housing for the shaft extending from the west elevation to the mound of the pumping station.

Local climate

Engine House to East of Pumping Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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