Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1974. Pumping station. 2 related planning applications.

Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney

WRENN ID
slow-railing-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Constituency
Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 January 1974
Type
Pumping station
Address
Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney, New River, Ware, SG12 9LH
OS grid reference
TL 353 139
Coordinates
51.80805, -0.03861
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney is a pumping station with an adjoining house, built in 1881 by the New River Company. The main building is a tall structure with two storeys and an attic, constructed from yellow-brown stock brick and featuring vivid yellow dressings and rusticated quoins. It has Welsh slated roofs, three sash windows on the first floor, and two large round-headed windows on the ground floor. Notable architectural details include a dentil eaves cornice, pedimented gables with circular windows, and gabled ends on both sides. To the left, there is a small wing of lower elevation with an L-shaped plan, also two storeys high, made of yellow brick and topped with a Welsh slated roof, featuring three windows. A tall, detached brick chimney with a battered profile stands to the right, above a square base with a dentil cornice and a dentil cornice below the set-back top. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing made of yellow-brown brick with vivid yellow dressings and a Welsh slated roof, which includes arched semicircular windows with glazing bars and stone cills, two on the main elevation and one in the east gable end.

Local climate

Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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