Burrow Farm Engine House and Remains of Drying Shed About 10 Metres to West is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1975. Engine house.
Burrow Farm Engine House and Remains of Drying Shed About 10 Metres to West
- WRENN ID
- fallow-copper-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1975
- Type
- Engine house
- OS grid reference
- ST 008 345
- Coordinates
- 51.10133, -3.41728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burrow Farm Engine House and the remains of a drying shed, built in 1880 by Henry Skewis, mines captain, are located about 10 meters to the west. The structure is made of flat bedded local stone with a brick cap on the chimney. The engine house is rectangular and designed for a rotary beam engine, featuring a chimney in the northeast corner and a detached shed for drying miners' clothing. It stands two storeys high but is now a ruin and roofless. The east front has three square-headed openings of varying sizes, each with wooden lintels, and a circular chimney to the right, which has a moulded cap and a large fissure. The interior is empty. To the west, there are random rubble walls from the former drying shed. The steam-driven rotary beam engine, which had a 25-inch cylinder, was used to operate a pump and two winding drums for the Burrow Farm iron ore mine, which was in operation from 1880 to 1883. This site is noted as the best surviving engine house on the Brendon Hills, as mentioned in the Exmoor Review in 1981.
Local climate
Burrow Farm Engine House and Remains of Drying Shed About 10 Metres to West sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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