Former Acetylene Store is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Industrial.
Former Acetylene Store
- WRENN ID
- dim-stair-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Former Acetylene Store, Newtown Road, South Willesborough & Newtown
- OS grid reference
- TR 016 416
- Coordinates
- 51.13859, 0.88067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Acetylene Store, now a store, dates from the 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a red brick barrel-vaulted roof. The building has four brick stacks on the roof, paired on either side of the center. There are three large brick buttresses, located in the center and at the ends on each side. At the south-east end, there are two doors set in arched surrounds, while the north-west end has two windows also in arched surrounds. This building was originally used for the storage of acetylene, which was utilized for lighting railway carriages.
Local climate
Former Acetylene Store sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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