Number 16 Sewer Ventilation Column on Mill Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 2020. Sewer ventilation column.
Number 16 Sewer Ventilation Column on Mill Lane
- WRENN ID
- still-landing-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 April 2020
- Type
- Sewer ventilation column
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 652
- Coordinates
- 51.37154, -0.15979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 16 Sewer Ventilation Column on Mill Lane is a sewer ventilation column built between 1896 and 1903 by W Macfarlane & Co, as part of a sewerage scheme designed by Baldwin Latham. It is one of about 28 remaining in Carshalton.
The column is made of cast iron and stands approximately 9 meters high. It is designed to resemble a Classical column, featuring a pedestal, a moulded base, and an enriched capital. The structure consists of two joined lengths of pipe connected by a flanged joint. Atop the capital is an ornate arrow, which is believed to help orient the vent into the wind or indicate the sewer's direction. This is topped by a ball with vents facing in all four directions. Originally, the column would have had a tall finial encircled with a coronet, but these decorative elements are no longer present. While there is no visible manufacturer stamp on this column, several similar examples in Carshalton are marked with the name ‘W MACFARLANE & CO, GLASGOW’.
Local climate
Number 16 Sewer Ventilation Column on Mill Lane 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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