Former Engine Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 2001. Engine shed.
Former Engine Shed
- WRENN ID
- strange-cornice-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Central Devon MP: Sir Mel Stride (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 2001
- Type
- Engine shed
- Address
- Former Engine Shed, Station Road, Moretonhampstead, Teignbridge
- OS grid reference
- SX 758 856
- Coordinates
- 50.65721, -3.75805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former engine shed, built around 1866 by the South Devon Railway Company and designed by engineer Peter Margery, is a railway engine shed located on Station Road in Moretonhampstead. Constructed from granite with dressed granite quoins and voussoirs, it features a gable-ended slate roof, with the ridge ventilator re-clad in corrugated asbestos sheets.
The shed has a rectangular plan, with the main entrance located at the west end and a store/office situated at the northeast corner. It is a single-storey structure that includes a large round arch entrance for engines on the west end. Both the north and south sides have four round-headed windows with glazing bars. The northeast corner also contains a small gable-ended office/store building, alongside a late 20th-century sheet steel shed built in the angle.
Although the interior has not been inspected, it is likely that the original roof structure remains intact. This engine shed is noted as a good early example of a broad gauge railway engine shed, built during the time when the Newton Abbot to Moretonhampstead branch line was opened.
Local climate
Former Engine Shed receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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