East India Dock Pumping Station

The East India Dock Pumping Station, constructed in the mid-19th century, exhibits Italianate influence. The building is primarily stock brick with blue brick and white stone dressings. It comprises an eastern companile tower and a three-bay, single-story building to the west. The arcaded tower has a pyramidal roof covered in lead ribs, topped with a finial. The top storey of the tower features three arched recesses with white stone keys set within blue brick dressings; these recesses are bricked up except for a roundel found beneath each arch. A wide band and coved soffit separates the lower portion of the tower, which has three similar recessed arched panels extending from the tower’s base. Rusticated blue brick corner quoins are also present. The single-story wing has a modillion brick cornice with a blocking course above. The centre bay features a brick pediment. Large, round-headed double arches are found in the centre and eastern bays. The western bay has a central arch flanked by round-arched windows with glazing bars. The arches are constructed with separated and shaped blue brick voussoirs, with parts of arches now bricked up. The pumping station forms a group with the East India Dock Boundary Wall and the Embankment Wall and steps on Naval Row.