Chimney, Building Abutting and Larger Building Presser Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Pumping station. 1 related planning application.
Chimney, Building Abutting and Larger Building Presser Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- tattered-lead-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- Chimney, Building Abutting and Larger Building Presser Pumping Station, DH8 9XB
- OS grid reference
- NY 960 478
- Coordinates
- 54.82512, -2.06301
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Presser Pumping Station, built in the late 19th century, consists of an engine house, a pumping house, and a chimney. It is constructed from snecked sandstone with pecked ashlar dressings and features stone-flagged roofs. The engine house is a single-storey, three-bay structure, while the pumping house is two-storey and set back to the right, with a tall chimney attached to the left bay of the engine house.
The tapered chimney rises about 20 metres and has two top roll mouldings, with the upper one being dentilled. The attached building features two round-headed, three-light windows with transoms. The taller pumping house to the right has a high, buttressed ground floor and three smaller windows above. The roofs of the left building are hipped, while the right building has a pyramidal roof. There is a segmental-headed door on the left return, and a full-height, one-bay square projection, possibly a stair tower, connects the two buildings at the rear.
All openings are designed with alternate-block jambs and keyed arches with voussoirs. This structure is noted as a prominent feature in the landscape.
Local climate
Chimney, Building Abutting and Larger Building Presser Pumping Station sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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