Former Engine House North West of Ashton Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Engine house.
Former Engine House North West of Ashton Mills
- WRENN ID
- heavy-granite-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Former Engine House North West of Ashton Mills, West Ashton Road, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 860 576
- Coordinates
- 51.31819, -2.20158
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former engine house, located northwest of Ashton Mills, dates back to 1862. It is a two-storey building designed in an 'L' shape, constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The structure features a cill band on the first floor, an eaves band, and paired gutter brackets. The roof is a combination of slates and corrugated asbestos, with coped weathered verges and moulded footstones.
On the south side, there are three first-floor windows and a large two-storey round-headed window positioned to the right of center, which was part of the engine house. The ground floor windows have been blocked. The north wing displays a tablet dated 1862 above an attic window on a stone band at the base of the gable, along with three windows; there is an arcade of three openings with stone keys, although the sides are blocked on the ground floor. The east gable features a curved triangular blind window and paired two-storey round-headed windows.
Local climate
Former Engine House North West of Ashton Mills receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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