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

Shore Road Pumping Station is a pumping station built around 1886 by engineers James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox. It is constructed of brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is designed in a tall three-storey Italianate style, with six bays of blind arcading and small round-arched windows at the upper level, which are divided by buttresses. An external stair tower was added around 1989. Inside, the station housed two "grasshopper" beam engines, one of which remains in its original position. The pumping station was built in connection with the Mersey railway, with steam pumping engines that drew water from the rail tunnel. The engines and pump were manufactured by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock. The boundary walls are now attached to a new entrance.