Workshop to South East 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 East of former Crossness Pumping Station

WRENN ID
cold-buttress-azure
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 East of former Crossness Pumping Station, Workshop to South East of Main Building, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way, SE28 8NU
OS grid reference
TQ 485 810
Coordinates
51.50853, 0.13886
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building is a workshop located to the southeast of the former Crossness Pumping Station, constructed between 1862 and 1865. It was built by contractor William Webster, following designs by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Charles Henry Driver. The workshop is made of Flemish bond yellow brick, featuring gauged red brick dressings and Portland stone for the kneelers and buttresses. It has a gabled slate roof with glazed rooflights and a rectangular plan.

The gable ends, each with three bays, have stone-coped gables with moulded kneelers. The plank double doors are set within a semi-circular arched architrave, which has raised imposts and a dog-tooth hood mould. This is situated within a similar third recessed arch that is flanked by recessed panels. The doorway is also flanked by similar blind arches set in square-headed recessed bays, adorned with carved stone corbels supporting an arcaded frieze and a dentilled dog-tooth cornice.

The north wall features 12 bays with similar blind arches in square-headed recessed bays, along with a four-bay lean-to that has a moulded stone cornice and a semi-circular arched east doorway with a fanlight. The south wall consists of 24 bays, divided by offset buttresses, with each recessed bay displaying a similar frieze and cornice.

Inside, the workshop boasts 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 main engine house, also built between 1862 and 1865.

Local climate

Workshop to South East 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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