Engine Shed to the Van Line is a Grade II listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 November 1996. Engine shed.
Engine Shed to the Van Line
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 5 November 1996
- Type
- Engine shed
- Address
- Engine Shed to the Van Line, Caersws
- OS grid reference
- SO 028 918
- Coordinates
- 52.51552, -3.43329
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The engine shed, which originally housed the line's Manning-Wardle 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives Nos 374 and 668, as well as the similar engine 'Alyn' Cambrian No. 824 from 1864, is constructed of yellow brick laid in English bond and features a slate roof with a louvred smoke box. The original off-centre locomotive openings that straddle the line have timber lintels but have been largely blocked. The shed includes sixteen-paned cast iron windows with moulded rose-pattern bosses at the intersections and stone sills, topped with two half-brick segmental heads. There was a pair of double side doors that have now been replaced, and it has one lateral brick stack. To the immediate east, there is a small red brick station building that has been significantly altered and stands on the original platform.
Local climate
Engine Shed to the Van Line sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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