Pumping Station at the Old Water Works is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1974. Pumping station.
Pumping Station at the Old Water Works
- WRENN ID
- unlit-kitchen-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1974
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- Pumping Station at the Old Water Works, Iford Lane
- OS grid reference
- SZ 145 925
- Coordinates
- 50.73228, -1.79455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pumping station at the Old Water Works, built around 1875, features buff brick with an appealing rough-cut texture. It has a tapered chimney that rises 80 feet and is capped heavily, making it a local landmark by the riverside. The building includes segment-headed blind arcades, some of which enclose segment-headed windows. It has undergone significant alterations and extensions, and the original hipped slate roof has been replaced with an asbestos-covered roof. There are also two outbuildings made of buff brick, featuring segment-headed windows and slate roofs. Additionally, there are modern extensions for coach repair works. The pumping station and the Superintendent's House at the Old Water Works are part of a group.
Local climate
Pumping Station at the Old Water Works receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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