Shore Road Pumping Station And Boundary Walls Now Attached To New Entrance is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 August 1992. Pumping station. 2 related planning applications.

Shore Road Pumping Station And Boundary Walls Now Attached To New Entrance

WRENN ID: drifting-chapel-sunrise
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Wirral
Country: England
Date first listed: 10 August 1992
Type: Pumping station
Source: Historic England listing

Description

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SJ3289 SHORE ROAD 789-1/9/144 Shore Road Pumping Station and boundary walls now attached to new entrance

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Pumping station. c1886. By James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox, engineers. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Tall 3-storeyed Italianate style building with 6 bays of blind arcading and small round arched windows at upper level divided by buttresses. External stair tower added c1989. The building housed 2 "grasshopper" beam engines, one of which survives in situ. It was built in connection with the Mersey railway, the steam pumping engines drawing water from the rail tunnel. The engines and pump were manufactured by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock.

Listing NGR: SJ3275789206

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