Workshop to South East of former Crossness Pumping Station

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TQ 48 SE 1/2

BELVEDERE BAZALGETTE WAY Crossness Sewage Treatment Works Workshop To South East Of Main Building

(Formerly listed as BELVEDERE ROAD Workshop range to SE of main engine house (qv) Crossness Pumping Station)

GV II

Workshop. Built 1862-1865 by Contractor William Webster to designs of Sir Joseph Bazalgette and Charles Henry Driver, Flemish bond yellow brick with gauged red brick dressings and Portland stone to kneelers and buttresses; gabled slate roof with glazed rooflights. Rectangular plan. Each three-bay gable end has stone-coped gable with moulded kneelers: plank double doors set in semi-circular arched architrave with raised imposts and dog-tooth hood mould set within similar third recessed arch flanked by recessed panels; doorway flanked by similar blind arches set in square-headed recessed bay with carved stone corbels to arcaded frieze and dentilled dog-tooth cornice. North wall of 12 bays has similar blind arches set in similar square-headed recessed bays, and four-bay lean-to with moulded stone cornice and semi-circular arched east doorway with fanlight. South wall of 24 bays has offset buttresses dividing recessed bays each of which has similar frieze and cornice.

Interior: 12-bay wrought-iron roof. One of a pair of workshops facing south elevation of the boiler house of Bazalgette's main engine house of 1862-1865.

(Contract drawings in GLRO: MBW 2511)

Listing NGR: TQ4852881013