The Old Fire Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1986. Fire engine house.
The Old Fire Engine House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-floor-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1986
- Type
- Fire engine house
- Address
- The Old Fire Engine House, Park Street, Castle Cary
- OS grid reference
- ST 640 321
- Coordinates
- 51.08773, -2.51499
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Fire Engine House is a former fire engine house, likely built in the mid-19th century. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared Cary stone, with grey lias stone quoins and Doulting stone dressings. The building features a steep-pitched Welsh slate roof with coped gables and kneeler stones. It is a single-storey structure positioned against a boundary wall of Manor Farmhouse. On the west side, there are a pair of diagonal-boarded doors set within an elliptical archway made of brick, which has a keystone and plain stone imposts. The words "Engine" and "House" are incised on the imposts. Above the archway, in the gable, there is a small plaque displaying a coat of arms. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
The Old Fire Engine House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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