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
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Former Engine House at Engine Pond, Castle Ashby
- OS grid reference
- SP 856 594
- Coordinates
- 52.22682, -0.74818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former engine house at Engine Pond is a single-storey structure built in 1737, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It features a combination of banded ironstone and limestone ashlar on the front, topped with a hipped pantile roof and a brick lateral stack. The building has a one-unit plan and a two-window range. There is a door located to the left of the center, with a wooden lintel that extends over a window to the right. There are indications of a previously blocked window or door. Additionally, there are two horizontal oval windows, now blocked, located below the eaves on either side of the central datestone. The eaves are overhanging, and the building is accessed via a path along the dam of Engine Pond, facing the water. A pump room is located at the basement level, but no machinery remains. This engine house once housed the pump and ram that supplied water to Castle Ashby and was approached by an avenue that aligned with the west front of the house, portions of which still exist. Both the engine house and the avenue are depicted on an estate map from 1760.
Local climate
Former Engine House at Engine Pond sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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