Ancillary Building to North of Engine House of Metropolitan Water Board is a Grade II* listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 April 1987. A C19 Ancillary building. 3 related planning applications.

Ancillary Building to North of Engine House of Metropolitan Water Board

WRENN ID
unlit-bastion-fern
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Constituency
Tottenham MP: Mr David Lammy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 April 1987
Type
Ancillary building
Address
Ancillary Building to North of Engine House of Metropolitan Water Board, Green Lane N4, N4 2HA
OS grid reference
TQ 323 869
Coordinates
51.56557, -0.09263
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The ancillary building located to the north of the Engine House of the Metropolitan Water Board was constructed between 1854 and 1856 and has been altered since then. Designed by Chadwell Mylne, it is built from yellow brick and features a slate roof with a parapet. The west facade has an irregular form with five bays and stands two storeys high. There is a square-headed entrance in the second bay from the left, and the building has square-headed windows, with stone lintels on the left bay and gauged heads on the other windows. The returns of the building have crow-stepped gables and heavy buttresses that match those of the Engine House.

Local climate

Ancillary Building to North of Engine House of Metropolitan Water Board sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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