Bush Hill Sluice is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 March 1990. Sluice building.
Bush Hill Sluice
- WRENN ID
- inner-banister-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Constituency
- Edmonton and Winchmore Hill MP: Kate Osamor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 March 1990
- Type
- Sluice building
- Address
- Bush Hill Sluice, Bush Hill Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 326 951
- Coordinates
- 51.63927, -0.08395
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bush Hill Sluice is a sluice building located on Bush Hill Road, dating from 1796 and likely designed by Robert Mylne for the New River Company. The structure features painted brick on a stone arch and has a Welsh slate roof. It is a single cell, square in plan, positioned over the watercourse. A pent porch on the west side includes a four-panel door, while the south side has a boarded-up lunette window. The north side features a window with radial glazing bars and a blind recess below. The building has a hipped roof topped with a spike finial. The interior has not been inspected.
This sluice house was used to operate sluice gates that controlled the flow of water over the Bush Hill frame, which is related to the works of the New River, established in 1613 by Sir Hugh Myddelton to provide a cleaner water supply to London. Another sluice building from the New River can be found at Newnton Close in Hackney.
Local climate
Bush Hill Sluice 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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