Number 1 Sewer Ventilation Column at the junction of Banstead Road and Park Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 April 2020. Sewer ventilation column.

Number 1 Sewer Ventilation Column at the junction of Banstead Road and Park Hill

WRENN ID
dark-outpost-wagtail
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 275 639
Coordinates
51.35999, -0.16994
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 1 Sewer Ventilation Column, located at the junction of Banstead Road and Park Hill, is a sewer ventilation column built around 1896-1903 by W Macfarlane & Co for a sewerage scheme designed by Baldwin Latham. It is one of about 28 remaining in Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton.

This cylindrical column stands approximately 9 meters tall 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. Atop the capital is an ornate arrow, which is believed to serve the purpose of orienting the vent into the wind or indicating the line of the sewer. Above the arrow is 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. There is no visible manufacturer stamp, although several similar columns in Carshalton are marked with the name ‘W MACFARLANE & CO, GLASGOW’.

Local climate

Number 1 Sewer Ventilation Column at the junction of Banstead Road and Park Hill 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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