Engine House attached to south side of threshing barn at Home Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Engine house.
Engine House attached to south side of threshing barn at Home Farm
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 May 2000
- Type
- Engine house
- OS grid reference
- SH 594 713
- Coordinates
- 53.22076, -4.10691
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Engine House, attached to the south side of the threshing barn at Home Farm, is a Grade II listed building. It is constructed from roughly coursed rubblestone and features a slate roof. On the first floor, there are three sash windows, with a boarded door located to the right. The ground floor includes a segmental-headed doorway and a six-paned sash window to the right of a projecting single-storey gabled range, which has a segmental-headed opening at the front and a boarded door on the right side. A substantial circular red brick chimney, set on a massive base, is attached to the west gable end of the main building.
Inside, the Engine House has a full-length loft supported by a king-post roof and features a slate slab floor.
Local climate
Engine House attached to south side of threshing barn at Home Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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