Engine House And Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the Southwark local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Engine house. 2 related planning applications.
Engine House And Chimney
- WRENN ID
- fallen-keystone-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Southwark
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Engine house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SOUTHWARK
TQ3579 TUNNEL ROAD 636-1/6/817 (East side) 31/01/74 Engine House and Chimney
II
Engine house. c1842, possibly enlarged 1865; altered several times and restored 1976. Stock brick with later pantiled roof of fairly low pitch, kneelers to gable ends. 2 storeys. Blind west return has flat buttresses to 1st floor. East return mainly blind with various filled in openings; parapet corbelled out. North end has part of a curved wall to right and, to left, an attached, taller, square battered chimney with stone cornice and blocking course above a brick corbel table; round-arched window at 1st floor with brick string above. South return has opening to interior. Replica steel plate chimney stack reinstated in 1993. INTERIOR: restored as exhibition space for Brunel's machinery. Built to house pumping machinery for Marc Brunel's tunnel under the Thames. Included for its historical associations with the Brunels and the first Thames tunnel (1825-1853).
Listing NGR: TQ3523779870
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