Former Engine House, Calcutta Pit is a Grade II listed building in the North West Leicestershire local planning authority area, England. Engine house. 3 related planning applications.
Former Engine House, Calcutta Pit
- WRENN ID
- calm-joist-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire MP: Amanda Hack (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Former Engine House, Calcutta Pit, Heritage House, Talbot Lane, Swannington, LE67 8QT
- OS grid reference
- SK 420 169
- Coordinates
- 52.74835, -1.37893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Engine House at Calcutta Pit, built around 1877, is a brick structure topped with a hipped slate roof. Its long facades feature six bays, each with tall windows set in cast-iron frames, which have semicircular arches above them, all within rectangular recesses. There is one large semicircular arched opening on the front and another on the side, both of which are blocked and have brick heads.
Local climate
Former Engine House, Calcutta Pit sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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 — 3 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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