Horse Engine House About 50 Metres North North West of Townsend Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Horse engine house.
Horse Engine House About 50 Metres North North West of Townsend Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- patient-baluster-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Horse engine house
- OS grid reference
- ST 004 428
- Coordinates
- 51.17653, -3.42582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The horse engine house, located about 50 meters north-northwest of Townsend Farmhouse, is a disused structure dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is built from local stone random rubble and features a pyramid thatched roof with slates above the eaves on the west front. The building has a roughly oval plan with an entrance on the north front. It is illuminated by a three-bay loggia on the west front, although the lower courses have been filled in. A beam for the engine remains in place. At the time of the survey in May 1984, the building was noted to be in poor condition.
Local climate
Horse Engine House About 50 Metres North North West of Townsend Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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