Pumping Station at Lock 38 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 at Lock 38 Grand Union Canal
- WRENN ID
- steep-transept-ebony
- 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 at Lock 38 Grand Union Canal, Marsworth
- OS grid reference
- SP 923 152
- Coordinates
- 51.82799, -0.6612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pumping station at Lock 38 on the Grand Union Canal was built around 1838 to 1841. It is constructed of brown brick in English bond, featuring offset eaves and a hipped slate roof. The right end wall is rendered. The openings of the building have semi-circular arched heads. The front facing the canal includes a large central window with cast iron glazing bars that have decorative roundels at the intersections. There are flanking double doors with radiating fanlights, and a similar window is located at each end of the building.
Local climate
Pumping Station at Lock 38 Grand Union Canal sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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