Engineering Works is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 March 1987. Former school.
Engineering Works
- WRENN ID
- peeling-parapet-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Mid Bedfordshire MP: Blake Stephenson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1987
- Type
- Former school
- Address
- Engineering Works, Woburn Lane, Aspley Guise
- OS grid reference
- SP 943 356
- Coordinates
- 52.01133, -0.62673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former National School, now used as engineering works, constructed between 1847 and 1850 by Richard Sheppard of Newport Pagnell, and founded by the Rev. John Vaux Moore. It is built from coursed ironstone with ashlar dressings and features clay fishscale tile roofs, displaying a loosely Tudor style. The structure is one storey with attics and has a rectangular shape with a roughly central projecting gable.
On the left-hand side, there is a doorway and a three-light mullioned window on each floor to the right-hand side. The upper window extends through the eaves into a gabled dormer. A small gabled block projects from the left. The projecting gable features a large four-light mullion and transom window with a moulded label above which is a small louvred single light. The gable is topped with a small bellcote.
The right-hand bay has a small projecting gable at the center, which contains a two-light mullioned window under a moulded label. Flanking this gable are two three-light mullion and transom windows. All windows are fitted with ornamental cast iron casements in a hexagonal pattern. The gables are adorned with stone coping and kneelers, and there are ridge and gable end stacks on the left bay, topped with ornamental moulded pots.
Local climate
Engineering Works sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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