Abbey Mills Pumping Station is a Grade II* listed building in the London Legacy Development Corporation local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 November 1974. Sewage pumping station. 19 related planning applications.
Abbey Mills Pumping Station
- WRENN ID
- turning-oriel-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- London Legacy Development Corporation
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 November 1974
- Type
- Sewage pumping station
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ABBEY LANE TQ 3883 STRATFORD E15 7/12
6.11.74 Abbey Mills Pumping Station
GV II*
Sewage Pumping Station 1868: Architects: Sir J Bazalgette and E Cooper in Italian Gothic style. Greek Cross plan. Yellow brick with red and blue brick and stone dressings. Slate mansard roof. Two storeys plus dormers. Entrance wing and the ends of the other arms five bays wide with round headed central entrance porch. Round headed windows with polychrome decoration. Larger central window to upper storey divided by elaborate cast ironwork. Heavy stone string course to ground and first floors. Modillioned eaves cornice. Elaborate timber door with foliated ironwork. Slightly pointed yellow and red brick arches to recessed sash windows. Central octagonal domed lantern with round arched gabled windows to each face, containing case iron tracery. Elaborate wrought iron cresting to dome. Flamboyant interior or enriched cast ironwork. Central octagonal lantern. Original beam engines have been removed. Elaborate carving of stonework outside and inside.
Listing NGR: TQ3871583222
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