Engine House and Saw Mill is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 2002. Engine house, saw mill. 2 related planning applications.

Engine House and Saw Mill

WRENN ID
brooding-crypt-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 2002
Type
Engine house, saw mill
Address
Engine House and Saw Mill, Wraxall and Failand, BS48 1NT
OS grid reference
ST 506 716
Coordinates
51.4415, -2.71093
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Engine House and Saw Mill, located in Tyntesfield Park, is a country house estate structure built around 1865-1870. The engine house features coursed stone with red brick details and a clay plain tile roof with gable ends. The saw mill is constructed from rock-faced stone rubble and has a gable-ended roof covered in Bridgwater tiles. It includes lateral and axial brick stacks.

The layout consists of the engine house as the main range on the left, with a cross-wing on the right. The saw mill is situated directly to the right of the engine house cross-wing and is now connected to it. The building is designed in the Victorian Gothic style.

On the exterior, the engine house has a single-storey main range with a glazed ridge-light, a doorway, and a two-light stone mullion window at the front. The gabled cross-wing on the right features a large treble-chamfered pointed arch brick doorway with plank double doors that have wrought-iron strap hinges, flanked by buttresses, and a four-light stone mullion window above in a large pointed arch brick recess. There is a lateral stack on the right side of the cross-wing with a polygonal brick shaft and a moulded stone cap, as well as an axial stack between the ranges with a gabled canopy. The rear gable of the cross-wing has a large six-light stone mullion window and a ventilator in the gable.

Inside the main range of the engine house, the space is open to the roof with a glazed ridge-light. The saw mill features an open tie-beam truss roof. This building is a notable example of a Victorian country house estate engine house and saw mill.

Local climate

Engine House and Saw Mill receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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