Horse engine House at Brixton Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Carmarthenshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 21 November 1988. Engine house.
Horse engine House at Brixton Farm
- WRENN ID
- gilded-gateway-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Constituency
- Caerfyrddin MP: Ann Davies (PC)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1988
- Type
- Engine house
- Address
- Horse engine House at Brixton Farm, Laugharne Township
- OS grid reference
- SN 288 123
- Coordinates
- 51.78314, -4.48273
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Horse Engine House at Brixton Farm is an octagonal building topped with a pyramidal asbestos roof. It features stone piers with modern brick infill. Inside, horses would have turned a driveshaft that used to extend into the hayloft through a low opening.
Local climate
Horse engine House at Brixton Farm sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% 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 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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