Dock Road Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1991. Sewage pump house. 1 related planning application.
Dock Road Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- sharp-sandstone-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1991
- Type
- Sewage pump house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NORTHWICH SJ 67 SE WEIR STREET (west side) 5/10000 Dock Road Pumping Station
GV II
Sewage pump house. 1910. Rustic brick with blue-brick and ashlar dressings; flat roof behind crenellated parapet. Circular; single storey. Chamfered blue-brick plinth band. Round-arched, quoined doorway faces Weir Street and has boarded double doors with ornamental strap hinges. Flanking the doorway are square rain-water pipes with decorative hoppers. Set around the building are seven 8-pane windows with chamfered sills and voussoired, round arches; each is set in a recessed panel with blue-brick offset bands below and above. Nosed string course beneath crenellated parapet with flat copings.
Interior: two 3-cylinder pumps by Hayward Tyler and Co. of London and two engines by Crossley Bros. Ltd. of Manchester. The machinery dates from 1910 and was originally gas-fuelled.
Rare example of a gas-powered pumping station for sewage treatment.
Listing NGR: SJ6569573215
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