C Station, With Associated Valve House, Abbey Mills Pumping Station
C STATION, WITH ASSOCIATED VALVE HOUSE, ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392550
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-2008
- List Entry Name:
- C Station, With Associated Valve House, Abbey Mills Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- C STATION, WITH ASSOCIATED VALVE HOUSE, ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392550
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-2008
- List Entry Name:
- C Station, With Associated Valve House, Abbey Mills Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- C STATION, WITH ASSOCIATED VALVE HOUSE, ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION
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:
- C STATION, WITH ASSOCIATED VALVE HOUSE, ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION
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 38779 83137
Reasons for Designation
The 1910-14 pumping house known as C Station and its associated valve house at the Abbey Mills Pumping Station site are of high architectural quality in their own right, and also form part of an historically important group as well as reflecting the early evolution of the Abbey Mills complex.
Details
251/0/10087 C station, with associated valve house 09-APR-08 , Abbey Mills Pumping Station
GV II Pumping station and associated valve house, 1910-14, to designs prepared under George W. Humphreys, engineer, for the London County Council. Pumping station is white stock brick with terracotta and moulded stone dressings. Slate roof with long lantern on ridge. A long low single-storey range, round-headed windows with hood moulds, stylistically a faint Gothic echo of A and B pumping stations (q.q.v.), with crisp well crafted detailing. 19-bay elevation facing main Abbey Mills Pumping Station articulated 3:4:5:4:3, ends and centre breaking forward under gables, central entrance, outer relieving arches. Opposite elevation similar with four bays to centre. Gabled five-bay returns with central entrances. Internal pumping floor sunk deep below ground level. Early pumping machinery said to be replaced. The associated pumping station valve house is white stock brick with terracotta and moulded stone dressings. Flat roof. A small L-plan single-storey block over a tall raised plinth. Round-headed windows with hood moulds. HISTORY: C Station was built at the end of a long programme of improvement works initiated in 1891 to enhance capacity for handling north London's sewage at Abbey Mills, the grandest part of the enormous programme of sewerage works carried out under Sir Joseph Bazalgette for the Metropolitan Board of Works in the 1860s. Completion of new sewers made C Station necessary, especially to cope with storm water.
The 1910-14 pumping station at Abbey Mills is a building of restrained architectural quality and a significant part of the group of historic structures at Abbey Mills. It has visual group value and also reflects early expansion of the complex to cope with London's growing population.
SOURCES: The Engineer, 18 July 1913, pp. 64-8; National Monuments Record, Buildings Index File No. 92244.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493500
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Engineer in 18 July, (1913), 64-68
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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