Boiler And Engine House At Goldstone Pumping Station

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HOVE West Blatchington THE DROVEWAY Former Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station

(Formerly Listed as WOODLAND DRIVE (East side) Boiler and Engine House at Goldstone Pumping Station, previously listed as WOODLAND DRIVE The Goldstone Pumping Station)

07/06/71

GV II*

Boiler house and engine house of Goldstone Pumping station, now museum known as the British Engineerium. 1866 for the Brighton Hove and Preston Constant Service Water Supply Company, engineers Easton and Amos, enlarged with west engine house in 1876 for the Brighton Water Corporation, engineers Eastons and Anderson, ceased to be fully operational in the late 1940s, restored 1974-6.

Polychrome brickwork, yellow, red and blue-purple, with some moulded brick, slate roofs with skylights, coped verges.

Plan: two-storey beam engine houses flanking single storey boilerhouse, No.1 beam engine to east dismanted and now museum, No 2 beam engine (west) fully operational, fuel economiser room on north front, underground tunnel linking former coal shed (qv) to west, remains of underground railway tracks.

South front: gable-fronted two-storey, three-bay engine houses, pediment to gable end, bracketed cornice, all cast-iron windows, linked entablature to round-headed window openings, continuous decorative string linking whole range, rusticated ground floors with central round-headed doorways, fanlights and panelled double doors flanked by round-headed windows, all with linked entablatures; central single-storey range of three bays, similar windows flanking central bay which projects forward with strongly moulded cornice, segmental-headed opening, fanlight, panelled double doors with ornamental metal grills. Four-bay return right, renewed cast-iron railings returned from entrance north around west front.

Operational Eastons and Anderson beam engine dated 1872, four boilers by Yates and Thom, Blackburn, dated 1934, E. Green and Son fuel economiser.

Listing NGR: TQ2853006549