Meerbrook Sough Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Derbyshire Dales local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1981. Engine house.
Meerbrook Sough Engine House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-niche-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Derbyshire Dales
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1981
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Meerbrook Sough Engine House, Sough Lane, Wirksworth
- OS grid reference
- SK 288 545
- Coordinates
- 53.08759, -1.57086
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Meerbrook Sough Engine House is a former engine house dating from around the mid-19th century. It is constructed from limestone rubble with dressed quoins and lintels, topped with a plain tile roof featuring gabled ends. The building stands two storeys high and has various openings, including some with round arched heads, as well as a doorway with an arched head. There are stone stairs leading to a west door on the first floor.
This engine house is historically significant as it was associated with the operation of the Meerbrook Sough, which was built to drain the Meerbrook lead mine. It is noted to be the earliest of the remaining winding houses in Derbyshire. The engine was removed around 1870.
Local climate
Meerbrook Sough Engine House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings