New River, Amwell End Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1976. Pumping station.
New River, Amwell End Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- outer-sentry-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1976
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- New River, Amwell End Pumping Station, Ware
- OS grid reference
- TL 360 139
- Coordinates
- 51.8073, -0.02767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Amwell End Pumping Station is a pumping station built around 1867, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is notable for being the second pumping station constructed on the New River, following the one at Amwell Hill in 1847. The building features an Italianate design and is shaped like a single T, constructed from yellow-brown stock brick and topped with a Welsh slated roof. It has pediment gables at the ends of the cross-wing, an eaves cornice, and culminates in a low square tower. Each side of the tower has a tall, semicircular headed window with small panes, situated below a brick band, cornice, and a parapet that conceals the roof.
Local climate
New River, Amwell End Pumping Station 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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