Benlow Works is a Grade II listed building in the Hillingdon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1989. Factory.
Benlow Works
- WRENN ID
- final-gravel-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Hillingdon
- Constituency
- Hayes and Harlington MP: John McDonnell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1989
- Type
- Factory
- Address
- Benlow Works, Silverdale Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 101 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50406, -0.41494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Benlow Works is an orchestral factory, now a factory, built between 1909 and 1911. It features a reinforced concrete frame designed by E P Wells and a brick exterior by Walter Cave. The building has four storeys and a 19-bay elevation. The entrance bay, which is the seventh from the left, includes a semi-circular stepped brick architrave above the doorway and segmental-arched metal casement windows flanked by rusticated pilasters that are slightly set forward, breaking the parapet. The elevation is strikingly articulated by brick piers and full-height semi-circular arched stepped architraves that frame alternate single and double bays. The double bays feature broad Diocletian windows on the third storey, positioned above central brick piers. The building is topped with a crenellated parapet. The rear and side elevations are similar in design. Inside, the floors and roof are supported by reinforced concrete columns with stop-chamfered arrises.
Local climate
Benlow Works sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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