Number 12 Sewer Ventilation Column on Hillcroome Road is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2020. Sewer ventilation column.
Number 12 Sewer Ventilation Column on Hillcroome Road
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-newel-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Sutton and Cheam MP: Luke Taylor (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 2020
- Type
- Sewer ventilation column
- OS grid reference
- TQ 266 638
- Coordinates
- 51.35948, -0.18238
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 12 Sewer Ventilation Column on Hillcroome Road is a Grade II listed structure built between 1896 and 1903 by W Macfarlane & Co for a sewerage scheme designed by Baldwin Latham. It is one of about 28 remaining sewer ventilation columns in Carshalton.
This cylindrical column stands approximately 9 meters high and is designed to resemble a Classical column, featuring a pedestal, moulded base, and enriched capital. It is made from cast iron and consists of two conjoined lengths of pipe connected by a flanged joint. Above the capital, there is a ball with vents that face in four directions, topped with a tall finial that is encircled by a filigree coronet. The finial also includes an ornate arrow that has been repositioned from below the vent; its purpose is believed to be either to orient the vent into the wind or to indicate the line of the sewer. 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 12 Sewer Ventilation Column on Hillcroome Road 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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