Boundary railings and walls to former Chelsea Waterworks is a Grade II listed building in the Kingston upon Thames local planning authority area, England. Railings, walls.
Boundary railings and walls to former Chelsea Waterworks
- WRENN ID
- kindled-chalk-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kingston upon Thames
- Constituency
- Kingston and Surbiton MP: Ed Davey (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Railings, walls
- Address
- Boundary railings and walls to former Chelsea Waterworks, Seething Wells Hall of Residence, Kington University, Portsmouth Road, Surbiton, KT6 5PJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 172 673
- Coordinates
- 51.39316, -0.31578
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boundary railings and walls to the former Chelsea Waterworks were built around 1858. They consist of a series of stock brick panelled piers connected by a sill wall topped with stone coping. The cast iron railings feature lotus motifs on the uprights and a decorative horizontal rail with a series of pyramids. This boundary stretches from outside No. 85 Portsmouth Road to the boundary with the old Lambeth Water Works site, covering a total length of about 115 metres. In 1995, these structures served as the boundary for a Hall of Residence complex of Kingston University.
Local climate
Boundary railings and walls to former Chelsea Waterworks 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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