Main Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1976. Industrial. 2 related planning applications.
Main Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- frozen-outpost-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge MP: Liam Conlon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1976
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Main Pumping Station, Valley Road, BR2 0HB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 395 691
- Coordinates
- 51.40383, 0.0043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Main Pumping Station, built in the late 19th to early 20th century, is constructed from squared Kentish ragstone blocks and features one to three storeys, with the southwest portion rising to three storeys. The building has a tiled roof with buttresses and includes four metal-framed vertically opening casement windows. The ground floor windows are adorned with cambered architraves, while the first-floor windows have flat architraves, with some round-headed windows on the side elevation. The second-floor windows are lunettes. Attached to the main structure is a one-storey section with a renewed tiled roof, buttresses, and three round-headed windows. On the southeast side, there is another one-storey section with two gables that contain lancet windows and tall lunettes on the ground floor, along with buttresses and a chimney.
Local climate
Main Pumping Station sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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