B Station at Abbey Mills Pumping Station
B STATION AT ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION, ABBEY LANE E15
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357994
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- B Station at Abbey Mills Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- B STATION AT ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION, ABBEY LANE E15
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1357994
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Feb-2007
- List Entry Name:
- B Station at Abbey Mills Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- B STATION AT ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION, ABBEY LANE E15
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:
- B STATION AT ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION, ABBEY LANE E15
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Newham (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 38740 83178
Details
251/7/14 ABBEY LANE E15 25-OCT-84 B Station at Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Formerly listed as: ABBEY LANE E15 Ancillary Pump House at Abbey Mills to south east of Pumping Station)
II Pumping Station. 1891-6, to designs prepared under Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, engineer, following a report by Sir Benjamin Baker and Sir Alexander Binnie, engineers, for the London County Council. White stock brick with red and blue brick and stone dressings. Hipped slate roof with lantern at ridge. Three by two bay rectangular single-storey block, each bay gabled over blind arches within which there are triple narrow round-headed sash windows. Loosely Venetian Gothic in style, the arches having polychrome voussoirs, foliated stone impost bands and keystones to delicate wrought-iron finials. Stone coped gable parapets. Cast-iron rainwater heads and barley-sugar downpipes forming corner shafts. Internal pumping floor sunk deep below ground level. Early pumping machinery replaced. HISTORY: B Station was one of a number of works initiated in 1891 to enhance the capacity of Abbey Mills Pumping Station (q.v.), the northern cornerstone of Sir Joseph Bazalgette's enormous and heroic programme of works of the 1860s that gave London mains drainage. It was built to pump storm water from the Isle of Dogs branch sewer and, when necessary, to augment the pumping capacity of the main engine house. SOURCES: London County Council Minutes, 5 December 1899; National Monuments Record, Buildings Index File No. 92244.
The Pumping Station known as Building B, built 1891-6 at Abbey Mills, closely follows its predecessor in its architectural style, and is a significant part of this group of historic structures, reflecting early expansion of the complex to cope with London's growing population. It also has strong visual group value.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 204901
- 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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