Water Tower House at King George Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. Water tower. 1 related planning application.

Water Tower House at King George Pumping Station

WRENN ID
low-pewter-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Enfield
Constituency
Enfield North MP: Feryal Clark (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Water tower
Address
Water Tower House at King George Pumping Station, Swan and Pike Lane
OS grid reference
TQ 372 978
Coordinates
51.66288, -0.01651
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Water Tower House, opened in 1913, was designed by William Booth Bryan for the Metropolitan Water Board. It is built of English bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings in the Edwardian Baroque style. The canted ends, each consisting of three bays, feature rusticated brick pilasters that flank a full-height semi-circular arched entry, which is accompanied by similar window openings. Each end is framed by Tuscan columns that support an entablature with a plain ashlar parapet. The entablature continues across the long side walls, which include a similar window at the center of the north elevation and a commemorative plaque set in a similar architrave on the south side, also framed by Tuscan columns supporting the entablature. The interior contains five cast-iron water towers with steel-plate tops.

Local climate

Water Tower House at King George 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 97% 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 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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