Dock Road Pumping Station

The Dock Road Pumping Station is a sewage pump house built in 1910. It features rustic brick construction with blue-brick and ashlar dressings, topped with a flat roof behind a crenellated parapet. The building is circular and single storey. It has a chamfered blue-brick plinth band and a round-arched, quoined doorway facing Weir Street, which is fitted with boarded double doors that have ornamental strap hinges. On either side of the doorway are square rain-water pipes with decorative hoppers. Surrounding the building are seven 8-pane windows, each with chamfered sills and voussoired, round arches. These windows are set in recessed panels with blue-brick offset bands above and below. A nosed string course runs beneath the crenellated parapet, which has flat copings.

Inside, there are two 3-cylinder pumps made by Hayward Tyler and Co. of London and two engines by Crossley Bros. Ltd. of Manchester. The machinery, dating from 1910, was originally powered by gas.

This pumping station is a rare example of a gas-powered facility for sewage treatment.