Number 13 Sewer ventilation column on Laburnum Avenue is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2020. Sewer ventilation column.
Number 13 Sewer ventilation column on Laburnum Avenue
- WRENN ID
- muted-lime-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 2020
- Type
- Sewer ventilation column
- OS grid reference
- TQ 271 651
- Coordinates
- 51.37098, -0.17534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 13 is a sewer ventilation column located on Laburnum Avenue, built around 1896-1903 by W Macfarlane & Co for a sewerage scheme designed by Baldwin Latham. It is one of approximately 28 such columns remaining in Carshalton.
This cast-iron column stands about 9 meters high and is designed to resemble a Classical column, featuring a pedestal, a moulded base, and an enriched capital. The column consists of two conjoined lengths of pipe connected by a flanged joint. Above the capital is an ornate arrow, which is believed to either help orient the vent into the wind or indicate the line of the sewer. At the top, there is a ball with vents facing in four directions, topped by a tall finial encircled with a filigree coronet. Although there is no visible manufacturer stamp on this column, many similar examples in Carshalton are marked with the name ‘W MACFARLANE & CO, GLASGOW’.
Local climate
Number 13 Sewer ventilation column on Laburnum Avenue 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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