WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS

WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS, GREEN LANES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390859
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS
Statutory Address:: WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS, GREEN LANES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390859
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-2004
List Entry Name:: WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS
Statutory Address 1:: WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS, GREEN LANES

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:: WALLS AND RAILINGS TO FORMER METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD PUMPING STATION; WEST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM K2 KIOSK NORTH FOR 15 BAYS; EAST SIDE OF GREEN LANES FROM BOUNDARY WITH 212 GREEN LANES NORTH FOR 13 BAYS, GREEN LANES

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

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Hackney (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 32268 86824, TQ 32275 86847

Details

735/0/10163 GREEN LANES 22-JUN-04 Walls and Railings to former Metropoli tan Water Board pumping station; WEST side of Green Lanes from K2 kiosk nort h for 15 bays; EAST side of Green Lane s from boundary with 212 Green Lanes n orth for 13 bays

GV II Boundary wall and railings to former pumping station. c1870s for the New River Company. Stock brick in Flemish bond with blue brick plinths, stone capping, and iron railings. Walls comprise brick piers with corbelled tops and pyramidal stone caps, linked by low brick wall blue brick plinth and stone cill under iron railings with spear heads. The walls run parallel to the east and west sides of Green Lanes and the listing includes: west side from the K2 kiosk (q.v.) north for 15 bays; east side from the boundary with No.212 north for 13 bays. The wall that continues to the north has been substantially rebuilt and this is not included in the listing. HISTORY: The Pumping Station (q.v., II*) was built 1854-6 to the designs of W. Chadwell Mylne in an picturesque medieval fortress style. The boundary wall and railings first appear on a map of 1883. This was the site of the 1830s New River reservoirs, with filter beds added from 1855. The Metropolitan Water Board was established in 1902 at which time the undertakings of the New River Company were transferred.

Listed as the intact section of Victorian brick boundary wall with iron railings that has good group value with the Grade II* former Engine House and Ancilliary Building.

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Legacy System number:: 491434
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.