Former Cardiff and District Western District Sewerage Pumping Station. is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. A Edwardian Sewerage pumping station.

Former Cardiff and District Western District Sewerage Pumping Station.

WRENN ID
plain-dormer-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff South and Penarth MP: Stephen Doughty (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
Sewerage pumping station
Address
Former Cardiff and District Western District Sewerage Pumping Station., Grangetown
OS grid reference
ST 168 737
Coordinates
51.45679, -3.19856
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former Cardiff and District Western District Sewerage Pumping Station is a building constructed of yellow brick with red brick dressings, banding, and an eaves cornice. It features stone kneelers and copings, slate roofs with glazed ridge ventilators, and small pane metal glazing. Facing Penarth Road, the main block has six round-headed windows with red brick arches. Thin pilasters flank the three right-hand window bays and extend above the eaves as chimneys. To the right, there is a lower block with a gabled end. Below the main block, there are modern extensions that imitate its style and materials.

The left end wall includes one large and two smaller round-headed windows. Above the large window is a lunette window with a pediment and an oculus above it, flanked by chimneys. The right end has a similar design, featuring two windows with lunettes above a doorway on the left and two windows on the right. At the rear, there are two attached blocks at a right angle, designed in a similar style, with five blocked windows on the northeast side. The gables facing southeast each have a group of four windows at the upper level. To the southwest, there is an attached lower parallel range with three arched windows and a red brick chimney, along with a lower block that has three camber-headed windows.

A date stone from 1907 is located on the west corner of the south elevation, but it was inaccessible during the inspection. The main block contains steel roof trusses, a glazed brick dado, terrazzo floors, and a travelling crane. The rear blocks also have steel roof trusses.

Local climate

Former Cardiff and District Western District Sewerage Pumping Station. sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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