Pumping Station to East of Wallasey Dock is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1985. Pumping station.

Pumping Station to East of Wallasey Dock

WRENN ID
second-spandrel-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 February 1985
Type
Pumping station
Address
Pumping Station to East of Wallasey Dock, Pump Road
OS grid reference
SJ 326 899
Coordinates
53.40217, -3.01377
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pumping station, built in 1886 and extended in 1908, is located to the east of Wallasey Dock. It is constructed from common brick with red brick dressings and features slate roofs. The building is single-storey and measures 9 by 3 bays, with the first 3 bays forming the extension and a rear range of 6 bays. The front has a round-arched applied arcade, two string courses, and a top cornice. The gables are coped, and there are clasping buttresses at the corners. The large keys of the arcade project upward as flat pilasters, with smaller intermediate pilasters. Six pilasters of the arcade contain small niches. The 1st, 4th, and 9th bays are blind, while the others have paired segmental-headed windows with round windows above, all featuring iron small-pane glazing. The roof includes rectangular ridge louvres and has pitched roofs. The right return has the first 3 bays gabled, with a round-headed window similar to the front facade. The next 3 bays are also gabled, featuring 3 round-headed windows that are interrupted by a later lean-to extension, with a louvred round window above. An octagonal stack projects from the center, adorned with 4 string courses and a machicolated cap. The left return is similar, with a large segmental-headed entrance. The return of the rear range is recessed to the left and resembles the right return. The rear facing the dock has been altered.

Local climate

Pumping Station to East of Wallasey Dock 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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