Former Lambeth Waterworks uncovered coalstore including tower and attached tunnels

The former Lambeth Waterworks uncovered coalstore, including a tower and attached underground tunnels, was built between 1851 and 1852 and designed by James Simpson in a Romanesque style. It features a roughly rectangular unroofed enclosure with an hydraulic accumulator tower at the northwest end. The structure is made of stock brick with walls approximately 12 feet high, topped with stone coping.

At the center of the northwest side, there is an ornamental square tower with two stages, featuring a crenellated parapet, blank panels on the upper stage resembling arrowslit windows, and round-headed arches in the lower stage. To the left of the tower is a panel with two round-headed arches, while to the right, a similar panel has been replaced with a flat arch and double doors. The sides of the coalstore have three large panels with a stepped cornice, and the rear has two inserted 20th-century flat arches with vertical shuttered doors.

Historically, this coalstore was capable of holding 1,500 tons of coal and included underground tunnels that connected to a track beneath the Portsmouth Road, leading to a crane at a riverside wharf for coal delivery by river. In 1995, the building became part of a hall of residence complex for Kingston University.