Former Engine House At Engine Pond is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Engine house.

Former Engine House At Engine Pond

WRENN ID
lunar-vestry-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Northamptonshire
Country
England
Type
Engine house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CASTLE ASHBY SP8559 12/14 Former Engine House at Engine Pond

  • II

Engine house. Dated 1737 with C19 alterations. Banded ironstone and limestone ashlar to front, hipped pantile roof, brick lateral stack. One-unit plan. 1-storey, 2-window range. Door to left of centre with wood lintel extending over window to right. Signs of other blocked window or door. Pair of horizontal oval windows below eaves to left and right of central datestone; both windows now blocked. Overhanging eaves. The building is approached from path along dam of Engine Pond and faces the water. Pump Room at basement level. No machinery appears to have survived. It formerly housed the pump and ram supplying water to Castle Ashby (q.v.) and was approached by an avenue aligned on west front of house, portions of which still survive. Engine house and avenue appear on an estate map dated 1760. (Castle Ashby Archives)

Listing NGR: SP8560059472

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