Engine House at Engine Farm is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 January 1987. Engine house.
Engine House at Engine Farm
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cobalt-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 January 1987
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House at Engine Farm, Morton North Drove, Morton & Hanthorpe
- OS grid reference
- TF 152 246
- Coordinates
- 52.80678, -0.29124
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House at Engine Farm is an early 19th century structure, with elements from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, designed for fen drainage. It is built from colourwashed brick and features slate roofs with modillioned eaves. The west front has three bays, including a late 19th century bay to the north and a raised gabled central bay, which contains a semi-circular window with fixed glazing bars and radiating spokes. To the left of this bay is a doorway with a semi-circular head and a plank door. Above the central gable, there is an oculus with radiating spokes.
On the south side, there is a central semi-circular headed doorway with a plank door. The east side features a central raised and gabled bay with a doorway that has a semi-circular head, an overlight, and double plank doors. To the left of this doorway is a window with fixed glazing bars and a semi-circular relieving arch above it. To the right, there is another doorway with a wooden lintel, a semi-circular relieving arch above, and double plank doors. Above the central gable on this side, there is also an oculus with radiating spokes. Inside, the building retains an intact Ruston-Hornsby diesel engine.
Local climate
Engine House at Engine Farm sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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