Shore Road Pumping Station and Boundary Walls Now Attached to New Entrance
SHORE ROAD PUMPING STATION AND BOUNDARY WALLS NOW ATTACHED TO NEW ENTRANCE, SHORE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1282538
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- Statutory Address:
- SHORE ROAD PUMPING STATION AND BOUNDARY WALLS NOW ATTACHED TO NEW ENTRANCE, SHORE ROAD
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1282538
- Date first listed:
- 10-Aug-1992
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHORE ROAD PUMPING STATION AND BOUNDARY WALLS NOW ATTACHED TO NEW ENTRANCE, SHORE ROAD
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SHORE ROAD PUMPING STATION AND BOUNDARY WALLS NOW ATTACHED TO NEW ENTRANCE, SHORE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wirral (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32757 89206
Details
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3289 SHORE ROAD 789-1/9/144 Shore Road Pumping Station and boundary walls now attached to new entrance
GV II
Pumping station. c1886. By James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox, engineers. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Tall 3-storeyed Italianate style building with 6 bays of blind arcading and small round arched windows at upper level divided by buttresses. External stair tower added c1989. The building housed 2 "grasshopper" beam engines, one of which survives in situ. It was built in connection with the Mersey railway, the steam pumping engines drawing water from the rail tunnel. The engines and pump were manufactured by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock.
Listing NGR: SJ3275789206
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 389345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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