Pumping Station Building and Engine is a Grade II listed building in the Haringey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1974. Industrial. 1 related planning application.
Pumping Station Building and Engine
- WRENN ID
- scattered-trefoil-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Haringey
- Constituency
- Tottenham MP: Mr David Lammy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1974
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Pumping Station Building and Engine, Markfield Road N15
- OS grid reference
- TQ 344 887
- Coordinates
- 51.58188, -0.06148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Pumping Station Building and Engine is a mid-19th century structure located on Markfield Road in Tottenham. It is constructed of stock brick and consists of two sections. The lower left part features overhanging eaves, a ground floor with three bays of arcading, and three louvred round-arched lights above. The heads of the windows are glazed, while the lower parts are bricked up. There is a lean-to extension on the left side. A projecting buttress connects to the taller right section, which has a high round-arched opening that is also bricked up. The right return has six bays of arcading, which are blocked as well.
Inside, the building houses a 100 horsepower compound beam engine from 1888, made by Wood Bros. of Sowerby Bridge. The engine features a 28-foot flywheel that is still movable and is currently undergoing restoration. The framework and platforms are made of cast iron, supported by fluted columns and a frieze with a palmette pattern. A fluted blocking course and brackets support the upper platform, while the valve housing is designed in a short-columned Doric Order. The interior is arcaded and retains its original iron glazing bars, complete with angle paterae.
Local climate
Pumping Station Building and Engine 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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