Water Chute on the Boating Lake in East Park is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Hull, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 2003. Water chute. 1 related planning application.
Water Chute on the Boating Lake in East Park
- WRENN ID
- quiet-cellar-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Hull, City of
- Constituency
- Kingston upon Hull East MP: Karl Turner (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 2003
- Type
- Water chute
- Address
- Water Chute on the Boating Lake in East Park, Hawkesbury Street, HU8 8JU
- OS grid reference
- TA 121 312
- Coordinates
- 53.76559, -0.30028
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water chute on the boating lake in East Park is a Grade II listed structure built in 1929, with later alterations. It was designed and made by Messrs. Chas. Wicksteed & Co. Ltd. and erected by the Hull City Council Engineer's Department for the Boating and Open Spaces Sub-Committee.
The water chute features a rectangular brick tower with brick buttresses at the corners and along the side elevations, which are divided into three panels. The rear, or southeast, facade has double plank doors on the ground floor. The top floor has open sides between the buttresses, fitted with timber grilles. An external iron staircase rises up the northeast side of the building, and the iron chute, which carries the ride, extends outwards and downwards from the northwest side, supported by tubular iron structures.
This water chute is an important, rare, and well-preserved example of an early water chute or water slide.
Local climate
Water Chute on the Boating Lake in East Park receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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