Hydraulic Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Tower Hamlets local planning authority area, England. Pumping station. 2 related planning applications.
Hydraulic Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- riven-terrace-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tower Hamlets
- Constituency
- Bethnal Green and Stepney MP: Rushanara Ali (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- Hydraulic Pumping Station, Hooper Street E1
- OS grid reference
- TQ 341 810
- Coordinates
- 51.51208, -0.06836
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Hydraulic Pumping Station, built in 1886, was designed to power hoists at the goods depot of the Tilbury Docks Railway. This rectangular building measures three by four bays and stands three storeys tall, constructed of red brick with stone dressings and segmental window-arches made of blue engineering brick. Plain brick pilasters are positioned between the upper windows. At the west end, there is a square tower that rises to four storeys, giving the structure a slight resemblance to an 18th-century church.
Inside, the walls are lined with brown glazed bricks below and white glazed bricks above, topped with a steel truss roof. The main area served as the engine house, while the tower contained the accumulators, one of which remains in place. Additionally, the square base of the chimney is still visible at the southwest corner.
Local climate
Hydraulic Pumping Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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