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At the south end of Wapping Warehouse stands the restored hydraulic station, which supplied the hydraulic power for the lifts in Wapping Dock Warehouse. 
It is the most southerly of Hartley's "defensive" line of pseudo historic "castles", which guarded Liverpool docks. It has a battered "Cyclopean" granite base, whilst the upper part is octagonal brickwork with rusticated stone quoins. 
The date 1856 is incised at the top of the east face and it has a battlemented parapet on granite machicolations.