Old Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1978. Engine house.
Old Engine House
- WRENN ID
- high-bracket-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 March 1978
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Old Engine House, East Lane, Embsay with Eastby
- OS grid reference
- SE 006 531
- Coordinates
- 53.97482, -1.99141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Engine House is a stone building dating from 1856, as indicated by the inscription "S R 1856" on the datestone at the rear. It features a slate roof with eaves supported by paired blocks and has quoins. The building has two round-arched entrances adorned with rusticated voussoirs, along with a wide round-arched window. At the east end, there is a small cottage that has a modern door and window on the ground floor, with a round-arched window above. The wet gable end includes a small-paned round-arched window. Additionally, there is a low wing at the west end that has a stone chimney.
Local climate
Old Engine House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% 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 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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