United Hills Engine House (At SW 700472) is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1988. Engine house.

United Hills Engine House (At SW 700472)

WRENN ID
leaning-jamb-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1988
Type
Engine house
Address
United Hills Engine House (At SW 700472), St. Agnes
OS grid reference
SW 699 472
Coordinates
50.27996, -5.22987
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The United Hills Engine House is a disused pumping beam engine house, built around the mid to late 19th century. It features a granite ashlar front, with the rest of the structure made from rubble and granite dressings. Most openings have timber lintels, and the upper stage of the chimney is constructed from brick. The building has a rectangular plan and includes a round chimney that is positioned at the rear right-hand corner. There is no surviving machinery, wooden floors, or roof structure.

The engine house stands three storeys tall, with its elevations largely unaltered except for a blocked doorway on the offside wall. The front wall has a tall central round-headed doorway, while the rear gable end wall, which is partly fallen, has a central round-headed cylinder doorway and a window opening above it. The right-hand wall has five irregularly placed openings, including a doorway on the left, with the upper left portion of the wall also partly fallen. The left-hand wall features a doorway on the right and a small opening high up on the left. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

United Hills Engine House (At SW 700472) receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% 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, 2 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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