Pump House at Branston Depot is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 2001. Pump house. 2 related planning applications.
Pump House at Branston Depot
- WRENN ID
- fading-groin-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 2001
- Type
- Pump house
- Address
- Pump House at Branston Depot, Branston Road, DE14 3FN
- OS grid reference
- SK 232 212
- Coordinates
- 52.78836, -1.65641
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pump house at Branston Depot was built in 1918 and is an example of Edwardian Baroque architecture. Constructed from English bond brick with artificial stone dressings, it features a flat roof and is a single storey building. The structure has a square plan with three bays on the east and west elevations and five bays on the north and south elevations. The corners are canted and framed by paired pilasters that rise to a corniced entablature, which is elevated above the parapet level at the entrance and corners. The windows are semi-circular, adorned with radiating glazing bars, set above moulded sills and recessed aprons, with triple keys extending to the entablature. The entrance on the north side has panelled double doors within a moulded stone surround, flanked by pilasters. Inside, there are brick-lined wells and a later 20th-century pumping plant. This pump house is a distinguished example of industrial architecture in the Edwardian Baroque style and is prominently located in front of the similarly styled office block of the former National Machine Gun Factory at Burton-on-Trent.
Local climate
Pump House at Branston Depot receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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