Partick Sewage Pumping Station, 35 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow

Partick Sewage Pumping Station, located at 35 Dumbarton Road in Glasgow, was designed by A B Macdonald, the city engineer, and completed in 1904. This sewage pumping station showcases Scots Renaissance architecture and consists of one and two storeys, with sunk lower floors on the sides and rear. The building features various roof heights and is structured with a four-bay eastern section, a single bay projecting gable-fronted linking section, and a lower five-bay office section that includes a single gabled western bay. The exterior is primarily polished ashlar, with brick used for the rear elevations.

The western section facing Dumbarton Road has bays arranged in a 1-2-1 pattern, with the outer bays advanced and topped with crow-stepped gables. The ground floor features four keyblocked thermal windows with moulded cills, while above are three-light, column mullioned windows, with segmentally aediculed central outer windows. The centre is adorned with a modillion cornice and a parapet.

The projecting central bay includes a keyblocked arched recess spanning the first and second floors, along with a bowed tripartite ground floor window supported by column mullions and a thermal window above.

The simple eastern section has five sash and case windows set in architraves with bracketed cills, a console bracketed cornice, and an embattled parapet. The western gable features kneelers and an apex block, along with a keyblocked thermal window at ground level.

On the eastern return elevation, there is a low-level keyblocked arched entrance framed by a stepped architrave with relief sculpture, flanked by blind oculi, and a tripartite window above. The gable is crow-stepped, and there is a semi-engaged embattled corner turret that is corbelled out over the ground floor. A turreted covered pipeway extends over the River Kelvin to the east. The plain rear elevations are detailed similarly to the Dumbarton Road elevation, and there is a polygonal brick chimney stack featuring a frieze, cornice, and parapet.

Inside, the pump room is notable for its elliptically arched, pilastered design and polychromatically-tiled walls. A mezzanine gallery is supported by cast-iron half-fluted columns, and there is a moving crane dated 1902.