Great Engine House, Kew Bridge Pumping House
GREAT ENGINE HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE PUMPING HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1080311
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Great Engine House, Kew Bridge Pumping House
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT ENGINE HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE PUMPING HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1080311
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Great Engine House, Kew Bridge Pumping House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT ENGINE HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE PUMPING HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT ENGINE HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE PUMPING HOUSE, KEW BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 18779 78029
Details
In the entry for:-
KEW BRIDGE ROAD, BRENTFORD TQ 1878 16/194A Great Engine House, Kew Bridge Pumping Station
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The description shall be amended to read:-
Engine house. 1845-6 and 1869-70; for the Grand Junction Water Works Company. Roman cement. Rectangular plan. 3 storeys, 2 x 2 bays, the eastern half being added 1869-70. Round-headed windows with glazing bars in 3-storey, round-headed, shallow recesses with archivolts linked by moulded impost band. Bold cornice. Flat roof. On east side, entrance on left has steps with decorative cast-iron balustrade up to board double door below fanlight. Attached compression cylinders. Interior: magnificent contemporary beam pumping engines filling the 3 storeys of the building, one by Harvey and Company of Hayle, Cornwall, 1869; the other of 1846 by Sandy Carne and Vivian of Copperhous Foundry, Hale; immense cast-iron Doric columns provide support for the beam axle, and the cylinders also are fluted. Two cast-iron galleries, at different levels. Roof is timber lined.
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KEW BRIDGE ROAD, BRENTFORD 1. 4419 Great Engine House TQ 1878 16/194A
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2. Circa 1840. 3 storeys. Roman cement. 2 windows each side. Rectangular not square, plan with windows all round. Round headed windows with glazing bars in 3 storey round headed shallow recesses; archivolt band. Bold cornice flat roof. Interior magnificent mid-nineteenth century beam pumping engines filling the 3 storeys of the building, one by Harvey and Company of Hayle, Cornwall, 1869 and the other of 1846 by Sandy Carne and Vivian of Copperhouse Foundry, Hayle. The engines are preserved but are not in use.
Listing NGR: TQ1877978029
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 202609
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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