THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE

THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE, GAS WORKS ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321867
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE, GAS WORKS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321867
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE, GAS WORKS ROAD

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:: THE PUMP AND TURBINE HOUSE, GAS WORKS ROAD

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

District:: Reading (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SU 72513 73492

Details

GAS WORKS ROAD 1 5128 Blakes Lock Sewage Pumping Station The Pump and Turbine House SU 7273 7/602 II G.V. Pump and Turbine House. C.1870. Red brick walls with grey brick patterning; stone and grey brick dressings; cast iron small pane windows; red tile roof. Rectangular building, with Pump House slightly wider and higher to north, Turbine House extending southwards into River Kennet. PumpHouse of 3 bays, the 2 lefthand bays breaking forward slightly and gabled, with cinquefoil window to gable. Lower windows tall, round-headed, elaborate brick arches with stone springers and keystones. Brick corbel-table to gable and verges; roof hipped to right with gablet. Detailing similar to Engine House (q.v). Turbine House has 3 tripartite windows under segmental brick arches, between groups of pilaster buttresses. Eaves as Pump House. The sewage pumps, and two of three turbines by Gilks, replacing originals by their predecessors Williamson Bros of Kendal, remain in situ.

Listing NGR: SU7251373492

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Legacy System number:: 39271
Legacy System:: LBS

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