Chimney to Western Pumping Station Behind Number 124 Grosvenor Road is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. A Victorian Chimney.
Chimney to Western Pumping Station Behind Number 124 Grosvenor Road
- WRENN ID
- muted-brass-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Chimney
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Chimney to Western Pumping Station Behind Number 124 Grosvenor Road, Grosvenor Road Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1V 4BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 779
- Coordinates
- 51.48624, -0.1484
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The chimney to the Western Pumping Station, located behind number 124 Grosvenor Road in the City of Westminster, dates from around 1875. It is constructed of yellow brick with Portland stone dressings. The chimney has a square plan and is designed to resemble an Italian campanile, featuring battered sides and pilaster strips. There is stone-dressed arcading at the flange, with two oculi on each face and a dentil cornice. An iron cresting surrounds the vent at the top.
Local climate
Chimney to Western Pumping Station Behind Number 124 Grosvenor Road 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings