Main Building, Kew Bridge Pumping Station

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TQ 1878 16/194C

BRENTFORD KEW BRIDGE ROAD Main Building, Kew Bridge Pumping Station.

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Engine house. 1836-8, by William Anderson, engineer to the Grand Junction Water Works Company; later alterations, and small addition of c1900. Two storeys, seven x four bays, with small single-storey two x three-bay addition to east side. Silver grey brick with silver Aberdeen granite window cills, plinth, doorcase, cornice etc. 3:1:3 bays. Bold central doorcase having rusticated surround with cornice and blocking course, panelled door below overlight with glazing bars. Round-headed windows to ground floor, square-headed windows above linked by cill band, all small-paned with pivoting casements. Cornice and blocking course. Compression cylinder attached, on left of entrance. Right return similar, but partially masked by addition of cream brick with door and blind, round-arched, window and three round-arched windows to right return. Left return masked by addition, which is listed with the boiler houses (q.v).

Interior: Boulton and Watt pumping engine of 1820 moved here in 1838 from the Grand Junction Water Works at Chelsea; a Cornish Bull Engine of 1859, and other objects brought from elsewhere. The extension was built to house an economiser (to preheat water for boilers).

Listing NGR: TQ1877478059