Engine House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1980. Engine house. 2 related planning applications.
Engine House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- high-merlon-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1980
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House Cottage, 5, Park Road, Ashby Woulds, DE12 6BJ
- OS grid reference
- SK 312 150
- Coordinates
- 52.73192, -1.53917
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Engine House Cottage is a building that dates back to 1805. Originally an engine house, it has now been converted into a cottage. The structure is made of red brick and features brick dentilled eaves, cambered lintels, and a plain tile roof with an end stack on the facing gable and an additional stack on the outshut to the right. The building has two storeys and an attic.
The gable facing has a blocked door, a two-light casement window, and a blocked arched opening in the gable, which has two cross beams in the brickwork beneath. The left side of the cottage features a nine-pane window below and a three-light casement window above, along with a blocked door on the first floor. At the rear, there is a door beneath a larger blocked arch and an attic casement window. There are later outshuts to the right that include casement windows and a door.
This building was constructed in 1805 to house a beam pumping engine for a local colliery and was converted into a workers' hostel in the later 19th century. It retains original features such as the spring beam and bob wall.
Local climate
Engine House Cottage 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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