Calamine Processor at Ngr St 4439 5739 is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1985. Industrial.
Calamine Processor at Ngr St 4439 5739
- WRENN ID
- other-plaster-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1985
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Calamine Processor at Ngr St 4439 5739, the Square, Shipham
- OS grid reference
- ST 443 573
- Coordinates
- 51.31289, -2.79926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The calamine processor is a 19th-century structure made of rubble. It features a tower that stands approximately 5 metres high. At ground level, there is a rectangular base with a buttress on the east side and two flues located to the north and east. This building is one of the few remaining examples of the extensive calamine industry that once thrived in this area.
Local climate
Calamine Processor at Ngr St 4439 5739 receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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