Hydraulic Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Wolverhampton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 August 2002. Industrial building. 2 related planning applications.
Hydraulic Engine House
- WRENN ID
- plain-iron-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East MP: Sureena Brackenridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 August 2002
- Type
- Industrial building
- Address
- Hydraulic Engine House, Corn Hill, City of Wolverhampton, WV10 0DB
- OS grid reference
- SO 920 987
- Coordinates
- 52.58672, -2.11833
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hydraulic Engine House, built around 1890, is part of the London and North Western Railway Company's Wolverhampton High Level development. Constructed in Flemish stretcher bond, it features a double-gabled Welsh slate roof with rooflights. The building has a square plan divided into two bays, with a boiler and engine house in each bay. A hydraulic accumulator was located next to the engine house on the east elevation at the north end. It is a single-storey structure with all elevations displaying two recessed panels. The side elevations feature dog-tooth cornices made of blue brick. The west elevation, which faces The Old Steam Mill (also listed grade II), includes semi-circular arches leading to double-leaf plank doors. The north elevation has two similar arches with cast-iron multi-panelled windows that have centre-hung top radial lights. The south elevation has an infilled window, and the east elevation has two segmental-arched openings that were once used for boilers.
Inside, the building has iron roof trusses. Historically, it served as an essential functional component of a notable group of industrial structures around Corn Hill. The interior originally housed two boilers and a cylinder steam engine, which generated hydraulic power used to operate cranes and ramps in the nearby Mill Street Goods Depot, also listed grade II.
Local climate
Hydraulic Engine House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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