Pumping Station and Attached Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1984. Pumping station.

Pumping Station and Attached Walls

WRENN ID
mired-shingle-rush
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 and Attached Walls, Slapton
OS grid reference
SP 921 225
Coordinates
51.89348, -0.66232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The pumping station and attached walls, built between 1838 and 1841, are located in Slapton Grove. Constructed of brown brick in English bond, the pumping station features a plinth, offset eaves, and a hipped slate roof. The canal-facing front has double board doors topped with a large, radiating semi-circular fanlight. Each side wall contains two bays of windows with semi-circular heads and cast iron glazing bars, which are decorated with small roundels at the intersections. The windows on the western bay are larger, and there is a similar small window on the eastern end. The walls are topped with blue brick or rendered coping and have blue brick piers with pyramidal cement caps flanking the entrance. The southern wall includes four low depressed arches leading to a side pond.

Local climate

Pumping Station and Attached Walls 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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