Fire Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A C19 Fire-engine house.
Fire Engine House
- WRENN ID
- last-hall-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Fire-engine house
- Address
- Fire Engine House, Station Road, Melbourn, SG8 6DX
- OS grid reference
- TL 381 448
- Coordinates
- 52.08451, 0.01457
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Fire Engine House, built in 1862, is located on the south-west side of Station Road in Melbourn. It is constructed of gault brick and features a slate roof. The building has a gable end with an elliptical archway and boarded doors. It is included for its group value.
Local climate
Fire Engine House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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