Engine Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. Engine shed.
Engine Shed
- WRENN ID
- rough-landing-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine shed
- Address
- Engine Shed, South Willesborough & Newtown
- OS grid reference
- TR 016 417
- Coordinates
- 51.13921, 0.88171
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine Shed at Newton Railway Works is a railway engine shed built around 1860 for the South Eastern Railway. It is constructed from red and yellow brick and features a corrugated asbestos sheet roof. The original structure consists of 14 bays by 3 bays, with three running lines entering from the western end. The bays have recessed rectangular panels and are adorned with rubbed brick round-headed arches above round-headed windows. The design of the bays is similar to other shops from around 1850, indicating a construction date between that period and 1870. The shed was extended by an additional 7 bays to the west between 1909 and 1912, and later, a single bay annex measuring 5 bays in length was added to the western end of the southern side. The interior was not seen during the inspection in July 1998. This engine shed is listed for its group value within the early railway works layout and its significant role in the locomotive establishment, especially since the original 1847 engine shed was demolished in 1932, making this surviving structure even more important.
Local climate
Engine Shed 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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