Sewer ventilation column at Cator Road is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2020. Sewer ventilation column.
Sewer ventilation column at Cator Road
- WRENN ID
- distant-foundation-mallow
- 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 280 643
- Coordinates
- 51.36339, -0.16278
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The sewer ventilation column on Cator Road was built between 1896 and 1903 by W Macfarlane & Co, following a design by Baldwin Latham. It is one of approximately 28 such columns still standing in Carshalton.
This cylindrical column is about 9 meters tall and made of cast iron. It consists of two joined lengths of pipe connected by a flanged joint and rests on a circular, decorative, moulded plinth. At the top, the column features a Corinthian-type capital, which supports the ventilation apparatus. This apparatus is adorned with an ornate arrow, likely used to direct the vent into the wind or to indicate the sewer's alignment. It also includes a ball with four circular vents, a filigree crown, and a finial. While there is no visible manufacturer stamp on this column, many similar columns in Carshalton bear the name ‘W MACFARLANE & CO GLASGOW’.
Local climate
Sewer ventilation column at Cator 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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