Former Enfield Electrical Works is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 2001. Industrial. 1 related planning application.
Former Enfield Electrical Works
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Constituency
- Enfield North MP: Feryal Clark (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 2001
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Former Enfield Electrical Works, 20, Ladysmith Road, EN1 3AA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 334 966
- Coordinates
- 51.65304, -0.07276
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Enfield Electrical Works is a building from 1906, designed by an unknown architect. It features red brick construction with extensive buff terra cotta dressings and a slate roof. The front facade, which faces the street, has six bays and includes two doors that were blocked at the time of inspection. These doors are situated beneath over-lights shaped like Diocletian windows, with the right-hand door still displaying its arched terra cotta hood with a keystone.
The ground floor windows are arranged in pairs and have gauged red brick arches with terra cotta keystones, while the upper windows consist of six-pane sashes, although the lower parts are boarded up. The first floor windows feature mullions and transoms, with six-pane windows in all but the second and fifth bays, which have four-pane windows. A terra cotta sill band and radiating voussoirs are located above the windows, along with a segmental-hooded central cartouche inscribed with "1906 ENFIELD ELECTRICITY WORKS." The eaves cornice and quoins are also made of terra cotta.
The side elevations of the front block have a central stack flanked by circular windows at the attic level, with terra cotta plat bands and banding on the stacks. The rear block, likely the former turbine room, has a more utilitarian appearance, faced in yellow stock brick with four arched openings and a circular window at the south end. The north end is mostly hidden by corrugated iron sheeting. The building is listed for its architectural quality and significance as a local utilities structure.
Local climate
Former Enfield Electrical Works 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 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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