Power House About 50 Metres South of the Fisheries Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Three Rivers local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1985. Power house.

Power House About 50 Metres South of the Fisheries Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-newel-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Three Rivers
Constituency
South West Hertfordshire MP: Mr Gagan Mohindra (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 October 1985
Type
Power house
OS grid reference
TQ 039 975
Coordinates
51.66689, -0.49865
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The power house, located about 50 meters south of The Fisheries Cottage in Chorleywood, was built around 1880 and is now used for stabling. It is constructed of stock brick and features a pyramidal slate roof, with a square plan. The northeast entrance has a cambered head and a 16-pane iron glazing bar window. There is a blocked entrance on the northwest side and another window with a cambered head. The building has boxed eaves and a louvred cap on the roof. Inside, there is a main cast-iron wheel that is 10 feet in diameter and 2 feet wide, equipped with 36 paddle blades that drive a 3-cylinder pump over a well. There are weatherboarded lean-to outshuts, but these are of no special interest.

Local climate

Power House About 50 Metres South of the Fisheries Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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