The Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Engine house. 2 related planning applications.
The Engine House
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cornice-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- The Engine House, Studland, BH13 7EE
- OS grid reference
- SZ 031 877
- Coordinates
- 50.68917, -1.95682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House is a former engine house, now used as a store, dating from around 1842. It features brick walls that are plastered and has an asbestos slate roof with a crow-stepped gable. The building is single-storey and positioned at right angles to the quay. In the center of the gable, there is a pair of ledged doors, flanked by a window with glazing bars on each side, all under a continuous hoodmould. Above the door, there is a carved coat of arms.
On either side of the building, there are wing walls that connect it to Carpenter's Cottage on the left and Quay Cottages on the right. Each of these wing walls has a crow-stepped gable in the center, featuring a carved shield, and large openings with timber gates below the gables. The Engine House is part of an important group of buildings on the harbour frontage and is a National Trust property.
Local climate
The Engine House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 2 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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