Riverdale, Gate and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. A Victorian Engine house.
Riverdale, Gate and Railings
- WRENN ID
- still-entrance-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1983
- Type
- Engine house
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Riverdale, Gate and Railings, Upper Sunbury Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 137 694
- Coordinates
- 51.41274, -0.36542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverdale, gate and railings, built between 1898 and 1900, consists of two connected wings. The engine house, which faces Upper Sunbury Road, features a symmetrical facade with five bays. The outer bays are slightly advanced and include full-height, triple light, round-headed windows, topped with slated mansard roofs covered in fishscale tiles. Each of these roofs has a dormer set into the parapet brickwork. The second and fourth bays have pairs of full-height round-headed windows, which are topped with stone parapet balustrading. The central bay is also advanced and contains a triple light round-headed window, with an entrance porch below that has a balustraded balcony. The parapet displays the stone barge of the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company. There is an entrance gate and iron railings. Behind and to the right of the engine house is a long building designed in a "nave and aisle" form, featuring an arcaded ground floor and a slated lean-to roof that rises to a clerestory, which lights the central area that has a pitched roof.
Local climate
Riverdale, Gate and Railings 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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