Saltmoor Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Pumping station. 1 related planning application.

Saltmoor Pumping Station

WRENN ID
proud-window-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1986
Type
Pumping station
Address
Saltmoor Pumping Station, Burrowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 353 308
Coordinates
51.07358, -2.92482
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Saltmoor Pumping Station is a pumping station and manager's dwelling built in the mid-19th century, with a rear extension and a new engine added in the mid-20th century. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with a squared and coursed lias plinth and a hipped slate roof. There are brick stacks positioned between the first and second bays on the left and another rising from the eaves on the right. The original engine house features triple Roman tiles and a battered chimney, while a later addition has a corrugated iron roof.

The structure is L-shaped, with the chimney and engine located in the southeast corner, and a lean-to addition on the south front that houses the 20th-century engine. The north front faces the river and has two storeys with a layout of one to three bays, where the first-floor end bay on the left is unlit. All windows are 2-light, and the entrance to the dwelling is in the second bay on the left, featuring a square-headed plank door with decorative hinges. There is a similar door with plain hinges leading to the pump house between the first and second bays on the left. The left return has a tall lias plinth that forms a retaining wall for the water channel known as Engine Drove. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Saltmoor Pumping Station receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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