Engine Shed at Thorp Arch Station is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 February 1988. Railway engine shed.
Engine Shed at Thorp Arch Station
- WRENN ID
- iron-thatch-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1988
- Type
- Railway engine shed
- OS grid reference
- SE 438 465
- Coordinates
- 53.91337, -1.33424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The engine shed at Thorp Arch Station is a disused railway structure, likely built around 1850 for the York and North Midland Railway Company. It features ashlar gritstone dressings on coursed, squared magnesian limestone walls and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is single-storey and consists of three bays by two bays, with an extension to the southeast that includes an open-sided canopy of two bays by two bays, along with a smaller, lower projection at the northwest end.
The side facing the now-removed railway has an infilled round archway with an impost band that forms a sill for lunette windows on either side. The canopy on the left is supported by cast-iron columns with fretted braces beneath a boarded frieze and has a hipped roof. The rear of the shed features a boarded round-arched opening, flanked by bricked-up round-arched openings. On the left side, there are boarded doors leading to round-arched train openings, with a lunette window in between. The right side has a central projection with a door and a sash window, also topped with a hipped roof and flanked by blocked round archways.
This engine shed was part of the Church Fenton to Spofforth line, which opened in 1847 and was connected to Harrogate the following year. A similar, though incomplete, engine shed can be found at Wetherby.
Local climate
Engine Shed at Thorp Arch Station receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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