Former Ambulance Station at Highlands Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 August 1994. A Victorian Ambulance station.
Former Ambulance Station at Highlands Hospital
- WRENN ID
- scarred-stair-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Constituency
- Southgate and Wood Green MP: Bambos Charalambous (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 August 1994
- Type
- Ambulance station
- Address
- Former Ambulance Station at Highlands Hospital, Worlds End Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 308 956
- Coordinates
- 51.64485, -0.11059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former ambulance station at Highlands Hospital was built between 1884 and 1887 by architects Pennington and Brigden. This building, constructed from red and yellow brick with a slate roof, features a symmetrical design with three central bays that rise two storeys high, flanked by two single-storey bays on either side and a central carriage opening. At the rear, there is an iron shelter consisting of three bays. The main elevation showcases six-light casement windows that are connected by sill bands and set beneath segmental red-brick arches, which are supported by battered red-brick piers. The carriage opening also features a segmental arch, with pilasters on either side and red-brick surrounds for the first-floor round windows, all beneath a deep coved eaves cornice. Inside, there are double doors within the carriageway and a single stack at the rear.
Local climate
Former Ambulance Station at Highlands Hospital sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 680 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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