Prince Street Bridge Engine House and Accumulator Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1975. Engine house, accumulator tower. 1 related planning application.
Prince Street Bridge Engine House and Accumulator Tower
- WRENN ID
- quartered-gable-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Constituency
- Bristol Central MP: Carla Denyer (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1975
- Type
- Engine house, accumulator tower
- OS grid reference
- ST 586 723
- Coordinates
- 51.44882, -2.59668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Prince Street Bridge engine house and accumulator tower, built in 1879, is located in Bristol. It is constructed from squared coursed Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and features a slate hipped roof along with weatherboarding on the tower. The building has a single-depth plan and is a single storey with a one-window range. Notable architectural details include chamfered quoins, bracketed eaves, and pediment lintels above a right-hand doorway and a left-hand sash window. The square section tower is supported by timber brackets at the eaves and has a shallow pyramidal roof. Inside, the original hydraulic pumping engine and gearing are still present.
Local climate
Prince Street Bridge Engine House and Accumulator Tower receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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