Sewage Ventilation Stack is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 2001. Sewage ventilation stack.
Sewage Ventilation Stack
- WRENN ID
- young-arch-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 2001
- Type
- Sewage ventilation stack
- Address
- Sewage Ventilation Stack, Quarry Hill, Box
- OS grid reference
- ST 830 686
- Coordinates
- 51.417, -2.24548
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sewage Ventilation Stack, located on Quarry Hill, is a structure from the mid to late 19th century, created by J. Stone and Co. Ltd. of Deptford, London. It is made of cast iron and features a moulded fluted pedestal that includes an inscription with the maker's name and date. The stack has a tall plain shaft and a flared top adorned with pierced cresting.
Local climate
Sewage Ventilation Stack receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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