Superintendents House at Western Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1999. House.
Superintendents House at Western Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- tattered-minaret-moth
- 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
- House
- Address
- Superintendents House at Western Pumping Station, Grosvenor Road, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 287 780
- Coordinates
- 51.48636, -0.14779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Superintendent's House at the Western Pumping Station was built between 1872 and 1875, with a later 19th-century scullery extension. It is designed in a classical style and constructed from white Suffolk brick, topped with a hipped Bangor Countess slate roof and chimneystacks on the east, west, and north sides. The house is two storeys high and features three windows. The south front has window and door openings with moulded arches, where the mouldings extend down the jambs to the cills, and in the case of the front entrance door, down to the plinth. Other windows and doors have plain flat gauged brick arches and rubbed Portland stone cills. At the rear, there is a simple single storey scullery that extends north, featuring a slate pitched roof and a brick gable end. Additionally, there is a single storey lean-to on the west side. Inside, the house includes a staircase with elaborate cast iron balustrading. It was originally built as the Superintendent's House for the Western Pumping Station.
Local climate
Superintendents House at Western 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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