Engine House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 May 1984. Fire engine house.
Engine House
- WRENN ID
- secret-pedestal-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 May 1984
- Type
- Fire engine house
- Address
- Engine House, Sand Street, Milverton
- OS grid reference
- ST 119 257
- Coordinates
- 51.02421, -3.25641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Engine House is a fire engine house built in 1837. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble and features a lean-to corrugated iron roof. The building is single-storey and has one bay with a 19th-century wooden door. An inscription in an oval niche reads "Engine House 1837." This building served as the home of the Milverton fire engine until the First World War and is primarily noted for its historic interest.
Local climate
Engine House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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