The Engine House of the Railway is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1987. A C20 Engine house. 3 related planning applications.
The Engine House of the Railway
- WRENN ID
- odd-groin-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 1987
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- The Engine House of the Railway, St. Michael's Mount
- OS grid reference
- SW 514 300
- Coordinates
- 50.11824, -5.47805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The engine house of the railway, built around 1900, serves the adjoining underground service railway leading to St Michael's Mount. It is constructed from granite rubble with granite dressings, most of which is painted. The building has a T-shaped plan and features a single storey plus an attic, with a lower section that was likely a former workshop attached to the middle of the lower side. There is a tunnel entrance located at the rear right, south of the west end. The exterior has simple elevations with doorways and windows that face into a courtyard on the west side. A gabled dormered window provides light to the first floor on the south side, and the building includes ledged doors and casement windows.
Local climate
The Engine House of the Railway receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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 — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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