Auxiliary Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1999. Auxiliary pumping station.

Auxiliary Pumping Station

WRENN ID
tall-basalt-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 March 1999
Type
Auxiliary pumping station
Address
Auxiliary Pumping Station, Grosvenor Road, City of Westminster
OS grid reference
TQ 286 780
Coordinates
51.48649, -0.14842
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Auxiliary Pumping Station, built around 1875 with some 20th-century alterations, is a single-storey structure made of gault brick and topped with a Bangor slate roof. It features corbelled eaves and a plinth, and has a rectangular plan with a former boiler house that extends westward at a lower height. The building has six windows with segmental headed sashes that include vertical glazing bars. A central segmental headed doorcase contains a four-panelled door. The end doors have been replaced with steel doors, and a 20th-century conservatory has been added. Inside, the building retains a kingpost roof, although the original machinery was removed in 1937. This pumping station is noted for being a rare building type that functionally and visually complements the main pumping station.

Local climate

Auxiliary 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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