Pumping Station to West of Bridge Number 121 Grand Union Canal is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Pumping station.
Pumping Station to West of Bridge Number 121 Grand Union Canal
- WRENN ID
- eternal-grate-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1984
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- Pumping Station to West of Bridge Number 121 Grand Union Canal, Slapton
- OS grid reference
- SP 931 195
- Coordinates
- 51.86683, -0.64898
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This small pumping station, built around 1838 to 1841, is located to the west of Bridge Number 121 on the Grand Union Canal in Ivinghoe. It is constructed of brown brick and features offset eaves along with a hipped slate roof. The canal-facing side has a boarded door topped with a semi-circular radiating fanlight. On the north side, there is an arched window opening that is currently boarded up.
Local climate
Pumping Station to West of Bridge Number 121 Grand Union Canal sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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