PUMP HOUSE TO NORTH OF LAKE AT BATTERSEA PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225940
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: PUMP HOUSE TO NORTH OF LAKE AT BATTERSEA PARK
Statutory Address:: PUMP HOUSE TO NORTH OF LAKE AT BATTERSEA PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1225940
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1988
List Entry Name:: PUMP HOUSE TO NORTH OF LAKE AT BATTERSEA PARK
Statutory Address 1:: PUMP HOUSE TO NORTH OF LAKE AT BATTERSEA PARK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PUMP HOUSE TO NORTH OF LAKE AT BATTERSEA PARK

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Wandsworth (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28234 77175

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BATTERSEA PARK Pump house to north of TQ 27 NE 2/13 lake at Battersea Park II The description shall be amended to read: Pump house. 1861, by James and William Simpson; restored 1987/8. English bond brown brick with rusticated quoin strips and stucco dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof. One x 2 bays. Tall one-storey elevations. Front bay has VR/1861 set in stone roundel above keyed stone semi-circular arched doorway. Similar arches to tall windows in side walls. Cast stone brackets support moulded stone cornice (reinstated 1988). Smaller and lower 3 x 3 bay range to right with similar arches to openings and 2-light cast-iron casements. This pump house was built to supply water to the 15-acre boating lake, one of the prime features of Battersea Park which was designed in the 1850s by James Pennethorne.

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BATTERSEA PARK Pump house to north of TQ 27 NE 2/13 lake at Battersea Park II

Pump house. 1861, by James and William Simpson. English bond brown brick with rusticated quoin strips and limestone ashlar dressings; hipped Welsh slate roof. One x 2 bays. Tall one-storey elevations. Front bay has VR/1861 set in stone roundel above keyed stone semi-circular arched doorway. Similar arches to tall windows in side walls. Carved stone brackets support moulded stone cornice. Smaller and lower 3 x 3 bay range to right with similar arches to openings and 2-light cast-iron casements. This pump house was built to supply water to the 15-acre boating lake, one of the prime features of Battersea Park which was designed in the 1850s by James Pennethorne.

Listing NGR: TQ2823477175

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Legacy System number:: 207211
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.