Workshop to South West of former Crossness Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Bexley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 March 1990. Workshop.
Workshop to South West of former Crossness Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- under-frieze-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bexley
- Constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead MP: Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1990
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Workshop to South West of former Crossness Pumping Station, Workshop to South West of Main Building, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way, SE28 8NU
- OS grid reference
- TQ 484 810
- Coordinates
- 51.50909, 0.13738
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a workshop located to the southwest of the former Crossness Pumping Station, constructed between 1862 and 1865 by contractor William Webster, based on designs by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Charles Henry Driver. It is built from yellow brick in Flemish bond, featuring red brick dressings and Portland Stone for the kneelers and buttresses. The workshop has a gabled slate roof with glazed rooflights and a rectangular plan.
Each gable end has three bays with a stone-coped gable and moulded kneelers. The main entrance consists of plank double doors set within a semi-circular arched architrave, which has raised imposts and a dog-tooth hood mould. This entrance is framed by similar blind recessed arches and flanked by recessed panels. The north wall has 12 bays with similar blind arches and square-headed recessed bays, along with two inserted 20th-century entries. The south wall features 24 bays with offset buttresses that divide recessed bays, each adorned with a similar frieze and cornices.
Inside, the workshop has a 12-bay wrought-iron roof. It is one of a pair of workshops that face the south elevation of the boiler house of Bazalgette's engine house, built during the same period.
Local climate
Workshop to South West of former Crossness Pumping Station sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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