Retort House And King George Pumping Station is a Grade II listed building in the Enfield local planning authority area, England. Pumping station. 2 related planning applications.
Retort House And King George Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- hushed-baluster-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Enfield
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pumping station
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following buildings shall be added:
SWAN AND PIKE LANE TQ 39 NE (east side) 21/286 Retort House and King George Pumping Station
II GV
Retort House. Opened 1913. Designed by William Booth Bryan for Metropolitan Water Board. English bond red brick with limestone ashlar dressings, set on plinth of blue brick; gabled corrugated asbestos roof. 4 x 2 bays. 4-bay side elevation. Raised stone impost bank links 3 semi-circular arched niches set between tall semi-circular arched architraves with keystones, to double doors in outer bays and two central windows with glazing bars and some later brick infill. Moulded stone cornice is continued as band across corner turrets and as string course across gable ends. Each gable end has 3 graduated semi-circular arched windows with galzing bars, above stone impost band linking central semi-circular arched niche flanked by semi-circular arched windows with glazing bars. Interior: cast-iron roof trusses. The retort house stored gas, which was made from anthracite in Dowson producers, before it was passed through a scrubber into the gas bags of the Pump House (q.v.). Included for group value. (The Engineer, March 14, 1913, pp.269-275).
Listing NGR: TQ3730197931
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