Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 July 1984. Engine house.
Engine House
- WRENN ID
- plain-granite-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 July 1984
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House, Boxley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 777 588
- Coordinates
- 51.30086, 0.5482
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House is a 19th-century structure located in Boxley. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring buff brick quoins and a plain tile roof. The building has an octagonal shape, with the roof rising to a point and a wooden shaft protruding from the apex. On the south and west sides, there are large wooden diamond mullion windows, while the east side has full-height plank doors. At the northwest end, there is a rectangular shed that may have been added later, constructed of red brick in Flemish bond with a plain tile roof that is hipped at the north end. This shed has two window openings under the eaves on the west wall. Inside, there are remains of a cogged capstan in the center. The Engine House is said to have pumped water from tanks to Park House.
Local climate
Engine House 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 lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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