Former Engine House at Hutchings and Harding Ltd is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. Engine house.
Former Engine House at Hutchings and Harding Ltd
- WRENN ID
- under-window-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Former Engine House at Hutchings and Harding Ltd, High Street, Sawston
- OS grid reference
- TL 486 488
- Coordinates
- 52.11829, 0.16961
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Engine House at Hutchings and Harding Ltd is an early 19th-century structure that originally served as an engine and boiler house for a brewery. It is built of brick and features a slate roof that is hipped at one end, with a cast iron water tank at the other end, positioned above a single bay engine house. The main building consists of three storeys and is arranged in a four-bay by three-bay layout, which is marked by blind arcading. The windows are randomly placed cast-iron fenestration. The engine house is tall and narrow, designed for a beam engine, and exhibits a similar style in its brickwork and fenestration. Currently, it is used as a workshop and store known as 'The Crust Warehouse'. This building reflects the earlier industrial use of the site and was repurposed by a tannery starting in the 1840s.
Local climate
Former Engine House at Hutchings and Harding Ltd sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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