Shore Road Pumping Station and Boundary Walls Now Attached to New Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Pumping station. 2 related planning applications.

Shore Road Pumping Station and Boundary Walls Now Attached to New Entrance

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 August 1992
Type
Pumping station
Address
Shore Road Pumping Station and Boundary Walls Now Attached to New Entrance, CH41 1EP
OS grid reference
SJ 327 892
Coordinates
53.3954, -3.01269
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shore Road Pumping Station is a pumping station built around 1886 by engineers James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is designed in a tall three-storey Italianate style, with six bays of blind arcading and small round-arched windows at the upper level, which are divided by buttresses. An external stair tower was added around 1989. Inside, the station housed two "grasshopper" beam engines, one of which remains in its original position. The pumping station was built in connection with the Mersey railway, with steam pumping engines that drew water from the rail tunnel. The engines and pump were manufactured by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock. The boundary walls are now attached to a new entrance.

Local climate

Shore Road Pumping Station and Boundary Walls Now Attached to New Entrance sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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