Boathouse 4 is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1991. Boathouse.
Boathouse 4
- WRENN ID
- lesser-quartz-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1991
- Type
- Boathouse
- OS grid reference
- TQ 135 692
- Coordinates
- 51.41072, -0.36934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boathouse 4 is a Grade II listed structure built in 1916 by Augustine Alban Hamilton Scott for the Thorneycroft firm, which constructed fast launches for the Admiralty. It features a slipway that connects with Nos 1 and 2. The boathouse is timber-framed and clad in zinc sheeting, topped with a cambered roof. Due to the curved site, Boathouse 4 has a different frame design compared to Nos 1 and 2, consisting of upright posts on padstones, cross bracing at the top, and passing braces from the cross bracing to a Belfast truss. The building includes 15 bays with a central skylight and a bicycle crane. The riverside wall has a series of outward opening casements with handles, while the side features concertina doors. The wall frame is constructed with four tiers of midrails, and the roof has cross braces between the bays, with diagonal boarding.
Local climate
Boathouse 4 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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