Engine Cottage and Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1987. House.

Engine Cottage and Chimney

WRENN ID
solemn-solder-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
South East Cornwall MP: Anna Gelderd (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 October 1987
Type
House
Address
Engine Cottage and Chimney, Calstock
OS grid reference
SX 422 692
Coordinates
50.5021, -4.22532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Engine Cottage and chimney is an engine house that has been converted into a house, located about 20 metres from a chimney to the northwest. It dates from the late 19th century and has some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of slatestone rubble and has a slate roof with ridge tiles and gable ends.

The engine house has a rectangular plan and is now a two-storey house, with the first floor set back from the ground floor. The front gable end features a 20th-century two-light casement window on both the ground and first floors. On the left side, there is a door with a pitched hood, and the first floor has two two-light casements. The right side has two-light casements on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The chimney, which is about 20 metres to the northwest, is circular in plan, tapered, and has a rubble cornice.

Local climate

Engine Cottage and Chimney sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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