Engine Shed and Pump House at Lion Salt Works is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1986. Industrial building. 5 related planning applications.

Engine Shed and Pump House at Lion Salt Works

WRENN ID
brooding-finial-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire West and Chester
Constituency
Tatton MP: Esther McVey (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 August 1986
Type
Industrial building
Address
Engine Shed and Pump House at Lion Salt Works, Ollershaw Lane, Marston, CW9 6ES
OS grid reference
SJ 670 754
Coordinates
53.27507, -2.49497
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The engine shed and pump house at Lion Salt Works, built around 1900, is constructed from brick and timber. This simple building features a square brick chimney and houses a steam engine that powered a beam pump used to raise brine. It is historically significant as it is part of the only remaining inland open-pan saltworks in England.

Local climate

Engine Shed and Pump House at Lion Salt Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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