Sewage pumping station and chimney

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SK 57 NE 3/79

WORKSOP HIGH HOE ROAD (East side) Sewage pumping station and chimney

16.12.76

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Sewage pumping station and chimney. Officially opened 19th August 1881. Designed by Worksop Board of Health Surveyor John Allsopp in the Italian Romanesque style. Brick and ashlar with gault and blue brick dressings and hipped slate roof. Chamfered coping, sill band, round arched corbel table, brick eaves. Single storey on basement, five bays. All windows are tall round headed iron frame casements.

Main west front has off-centre segmental headed doorway flanked by single blocked windows. Above, central doorway with moulded lintel set in recessed panel, flanked by two windows in double recessed panels. Above, small recessed panel over door. North and south ends have each a single window; rear elevation has central door with blank panel over, flanked by single windows.

Interior has gallery on cast iron columns and matching spiral staircase. Chimney, three stages, square plan, has battered ashlar base with recessed panels and moulded coping, blind arcaded string course, corbel table and moulded ashlar eaves band with projecting modillioned ashlar cap. Second stage has two tiers of recessed panels on each side; blue brick third stage has three recessed panels on each side.

Listing NGR: SK5970579025