Engine House to North of North Range of Edge Hill Station is a Grade II* listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1974. Engine house.

Engine House to North of North Range of Edge Hill Station

WRENN ID
tenth-granite-reed
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Liverpool
Constituency
Liverpool Wavertree MP: Paula Barker (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 October 1974
Type
Engine house
Address
Engine House to North of North Range of Edge Hill Station, Tunnel Road, L7 6ND
OS grid reference
SJ 371 899
Coordinates
53.40266, -2.94653
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The engine house, built in 1849, is located to the north of the north range of Edge Hill Station and was constructed for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. It is made of brick with stone dressings and features three by one bays. The building has a battered stone base with vermiculated rustication, an impost band, a top string course, a bracketed cornice, and a blocking course. The central bay projects forward and includes a round-headed entrance flanked by round-headed windows, all adorned with stone arches featuring vermiculated voussoirs and faceted keys. The windows have small-paned iron casements, and the entrance is fitted with paired six-panel doors. This engine house was specifically built to wind trains through the Waterloo Tunnel.

Local climate

Engine House to North of North Range of Edge Hill Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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