Water Wheel in Grounds of the Grove is a Grade II listed building in the Sutton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1974. Water wheel.
Water Wheel in Grounds of the Grove
- WRENN ID
- scarred-grate-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sutton
- Constituency
- Carshalton and Wallington MP: Bobby Dean (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1974
- Type
- Water wheel
- Address
- Water Wheel in Grounds of the Grove, Mill Lane
- OS grid reference
- TQ 279 647
- Coordinates
- 51.36721, -0.1633
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water wheel in the grounds of The Grove is a 19th-century structure. It is a large wooden wheel with iron plates, believed to have operated Charrington's flour mill until the 1880s, after which the mill was demolished. The wheel was then attached to an electricity generating plant by order of Samuel Barrow, who owned The Grove from 1888. The wheel is protected by an open timber-framed structure with an ashlar casing at the base. This structure features a tall, steep hipped plain tile roof with gablets, cresting, and sunflower finials, along with stone blocks against the south side. To the north, there is a smaller structure that houses the electricity plant.
Local climate
Water Wheel in Grounds of the Grove 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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