Engine House, Engine Pit and Bye Pit, Red Brook is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1985. Engine house.
Engine House, Engine Pit and Bye Pit, Red Brook
- WRENN ID
- riven-pavement-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Colne Valley MP: Paul Davies (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1985
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House, Engine Pit and Bye Pit, Red Brook, Stanedge
- OS grid reference
- SE 025 102
- Coordinates
- 53.58846, -1.96333
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House, Engine Pit, and Bye Pit at Red Brook were built between 1798 and 1811, designed by engineer Benjamin Outram. This structure contains two pits and is made of deeply coursed rubble, although the roof has been removed. It is located roughly at the center point of the Standedge canal tunnel.
On the south elevation, the ground floor features openings with segmental arched heads, while the intermediate level has three similar openings that have been bricked up. The high level also has two openings with segmental arched heads. The west elevation has a tall slender opening at the intermediate level with a segmental arched head. On the north elevation, there is a large segmental arch at ground level, which is blocked, along with two small blocked openings, one of which has a segmental arched head. The intermediate level has two small blocked openings, one of which also has a segmental arched head.
Inside, the building encloses the engine pit and bye pit, which were used to drain and operate the central part of the tunnel. The pits are brick-lined and circular in cross-section, with later square parapets built around each pit. The engine used was a 70-inch atmospheric engine of the Newcomen type.
Local climate
Engine House, Engine Pit and Bye Pit, Red Brook 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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