Engine House at Sw689336 is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1988. Engine house.
Engine House at Sw689336
- WRENN ID
- guardian-wall-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1988
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Engine House at Sw689336, Wendron
- OS grid reference
- SW 689 336
- Coordinates
- 50.15777, -5.23585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is an engine house, dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features a granite ashlar bob wall, with the rest constructed from granite rubble and granite dressings. The chimney is made of rubble with a brick upper stage, sitting over a dressed granite collar. The structure has a rectangular one-room plan and appears to have been converted for different use, possibly into a pair of houses, around the late 19th century. During this conversion, the original studwork wall on the second floor over the bob wall was replaced with granite rubble, and new window openings were created in the right-hand wall. The chimney is round in plan and is located behind the rear left-hand corner of the building. The engine house is currently roofless and has a lean-to on the left side.
The exterior consists of three storeys above a basement. There are original openings as well as some openings from the late 19th century, although some masonry has fallen. The front bob wall features a central round-headed opening. The right-hand side wall has a pair of doorways at the middle of the ground floor, with original openings above and later openings on either side on each floor. The interior has had its machinery, floors, and roof removed.
Local climate
Engine House at Sw689336 receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% 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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