Former Chelsea Waterworks Office/Lodge (Building No. 11) is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1992. Lodge, office.
Former Chelsea Waterworks Office/Lodge (Building No. 11)
- WRENN ID
- idle-thatch-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1992
- Type
- Lodge, office
- Address
- Former Chelsea Waterworks Office/Lodge (Building No. 11), Seething Wells Halls of Residence, Kingston University, Portsmouth Road, Surbiton, KY6 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 172 673
- Coordinates
- 51.3932, -0.31544
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former Chelsea Waterworks Office and Lodge, also known as Building No. 11, is a lodge with office accommodation built in 1860 by James Simpson for the Chelsea Waterworks Company. It is designed in the Italianate style and constructed of stock brick with a hipped slate roof. The northwest elevation features a central projecting section with a pediment that contains a clock face and three round-headed windows. To the right, there is a set-back section with two round-headed arches, while the left side has a lean-to canopy. The southwest front has nine round-headed windows and includes a tall, narrow campanile tower of two stages, which may have originally served as a ventilation shaft for the steam railway tunnel that leads to the coal store. In 1995, the building became part of a hall of residence complex for Kingston University.
Local climate
Former Chelsea Waterworks Office/Lodge (Building No. 11) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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