Hydraulic Engine House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Holland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1980. Engine house.
Hydraulic Engine House
- WRENN ID
- dusk-lime-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Holland
- Constituency
- South Holland and The Deepings MP: Sir John Hayes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 January 1980
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Hydraulic Engine House, Tydd Gote Road, Sutton Bridge
- OS grid reference
- TF 480 209
- Coordinates
- 52.76547, 0.1922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hydraulic Engine House, built in 1897, is a notable structure located on Tydd Gote Road in Sutton Bridge. The machinery was supplied by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd. The building features an iron and red brick construction with slate roofs. It has a ribbed iron tower topped with a hipped roof that has overhanging eaves. The structure is two storeys high and consists of two bays, with no openings on the ground floor. The upper level has two glazing bar sash windows with flat heads on both the front and rear, along with a single similar sash window on each side wall.
At the rear, there is a red brick range that is single storey and three bays wide. This section includes a large segmental arched glazing bar fixed light with a flush wedge lintel, and to the right, there are two segmental arched doorways with plank doors, the one on the far right being wider. The rear also features three similar windows, with a small blocked doorway to the left.
The hydraulic plant inside consists of three accumulators and direct-acting double cylinder pumps. Originally, the motive power came from two locomotive-type boilers, which have since been replaced by two electric motors. This building is connected underground to Cross Keys Bridge, Sutton Bridge.
Local climate
Hydraulic Engine House 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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