Water Tower House At King George Pumping Station

Water Tower House, opened in 1913, was designed by William Booth Bryan for the Metropolitan Water Board. It is built of English bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings in the Edwardian Baroque style. The canted ends, each consisting of three bays, feature rusticated brick pilasters that flank a full-height semi-circular arched entry, which is accompanied by similar window openings. Each end is framed by Tuscan columns that support an entablature with a plain ashlar parapet. The entablature continues across the long side walls, which include a similar window at the center of the north elevation and a commemorative plaque set in a similar architrave on the south side, also framed by Tuscan columns supporting the entablature. The interior contains five cast-iron water towers with steel-plate tops.