Dam and Machinery House at Fisher Tarn Reservoir is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. Dam, machinery house.
Dam and Machinery House at Fisher Tarn Reservoir
- WRENN ID
- stark-oriel-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- Dam, machinery house
- Address
- Dam and Machinery House at Fisher Tarn Reservoir, New Hutton
- OS grid reference
- SD 550 927
- Coordinates
- 54.32827, -2.69291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The dam and machinery house at Fisher Tarn Reservoir is a structure built in 1896, as indicated by the foundation stone on the machinery house. It is constructed from rough-dressed snecked stone blocks. The dam stands approximately 30 feet high and features a walkway along the top. The central overflow section has a battered design with three semicircular sluice-gate openings at the top, positioned between mock medieval turrets. The machinery house, located at the base of the overflow channel, has a square plan with stop-chamfered corners, Diocletian windows, and a pyramidal stone roof.
Local climate
Dam and Machinery House at Fisher Tarn Reservoir sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,430 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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