Engine House and Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Engine house. 2 related planning applications.
Engine House and Chimney
- WRENN ID
- fallen-keystone-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Constituency
- Bermondsey and Old Southwark MP: Neil Coyle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House and Chimney, Tunnel Road, SE16 4JJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 352 798
- Coordinates
- 51.5016, -0.05297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House and Chimney, built around 1842 and possibly enlarged in 1865, is a two-storey structure made of stock brick with a later pantiled roof that has a fairly low pitch and kneelers at the gable ends. The west side has a blind return with flat buttresses on the first floor, while the east side is mostly blind with various filled-in openings and a corbelled parapet. The north end features part of a curved wall on the right and, on the left, a taller square battered chimney with a stone cornice and a blocking course above a brick corbel table. There is a round-arched window on the first floor with a brick string above it. The south side has an opening leading to the interior. A replica steel plate chimney stack was reinstated in 1993. Inside, the building has been restored as an exhibition space for Marc Brunel's machinery, which was originally housed here for the pumping machinery related to the first Thames tunnel, constructed between 1825 and 1853. The building is included for its historical associations with the Brunels.
Local climate
Engine House and Chimney 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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