Number 19 Sewer Ventilation Column in Rotherfield Road (east side) at junction with Talbot 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 19 Sewer Ventilation Column in Rotherfield Road (east side) at junction with Talbot Road
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-quoin-burdock
- 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 283 643
- Coordinates
- 51.36417, -0.15801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 19 Sewer Ventilation Column is a cast-iron structure located on the east side of Rotherfield Road at its junction with Talbot Road in Carshalton, built around 1896-1903. It was constructed by W Macfarlane & Co for a sewerage scheme designed by Baldwin Latham, and it is one of about 28 remaining in Carshalton.
The cylindrical column stands approximately 9 meters high and is designed to resemble a Classical column, featuring a pedestal, a moulded base, and an enriched capital. It consists of two conjoined lengths of pipe connected with a flanged joint. Atop the capital is an ornate arrow, which is believed to either orient the vent into the wind or indicate the sewer's direction. This is topped by a ball with vents facing all four directions. Originally, the column would have had a tall finial encircled with a coronet, but these decorative elements are no longer present. The pedestal bears the inscription ‘W MACFARLANE & CO, GLASGOW’.
Local climate
Number 19 Sewer Ventilation Column in Rotherfield Road (east side) at junction with Talbot 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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