Engine House Of Metropolitan Water Board is a Grade II* listed building in the Hackney local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1972. Engine house. 14 related planning applications.

Engine House Of Metropolitan Water Board

WRENN ID
strange-lime-rye
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Hackney
Country
England
Date first listed
16 May 1972
Type
Engine house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. GEEEN LANES N4 5013 (East Side) -------------- Engine House of Metropolitan Water Board (Formerly at Waterworks Pumping Station) TQ 3286 11/222 16.5.72. II*

  2. Large building designed to resemble a mediaeval fortress with keep and bailey. 1854-6 by Chadwell Mylne. Stock brick with stone dressings. Battlements and large stepped buttresses all around. The "keep" is of 2 storeys with a tall basement plinth. 6 windows on main south-west front. At north-east and south-west corners round towers with square bartizans the former with a tall conical roof and both having battlements crow-stepped up towards them. Continuous quasi-entablature, with cable moulding, running right around towers. Taller octagonal chimney tower to east. 8 steps (the top one with bootscraper!) to entrance in forebuilding running along north wall and into "bailey" building, which is lower with segmental arcading and 2 slit windows in each bay. Important picturesque landmark.

Listing NGR: TQ3231486884

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