Description

EPSOM
HORTON LANE
TQ 1862-1962
(West side, off)
19/2
Central Station
II

Hospital water, gas and electricity station now disused. Designed 1899, opened
1901. By Clifford Smith for London County Council. Yellow brick with red brick
dressings; Welsh slate roofs. 3-stage water tower enclosed by lower 2-storey and
1-storey ancillary buildings forming L-shaped plan. Tower: ashlar cornices
between stages; red-brick quoins, keystoned archivolts and shaped panels below
windows. On south side, 2 round-arched windows to lower stage, lunette above;
similar lunette to north side, and on west side 3 lunettes, outer ones smaller.
Tall, red-brick machicolations to upper stage below projecting cornice on top of
which is a metal water tank, the tops of its north and south sides being inverted-
triangle-shaped. Attached to south side, a low 3-bay single-storey building, with
segmental brick-arched windows (that on left small); raised, corbelled verges; and
central ridge stack. Against west side is a similar, larger, 2-storey building,
the end gables with keyed oculi and raised gable band. Projecting on east side of
tower is an added 2-storey gabled block, not of special interest; but to right of
this are 2 paired original, gabled, single-storey ranges having: keyed, round-arched
windows, left range with 2 windows flanking tall recess right range with 3 windows;
gable bands; and the roof ridges louvred. Interior: tower reported to retain well-
head surrounded by railings on ball-finialed fluted columns and the pumping
machinery and engine. 'this building served all five of the nearby London County
Council hospitals and its facilities included a 400 foot well-shaft, a gas works,
an electricity switching station, a weigh-bridge, a boiler house, an engine house,
a storage-battery room, a machine-tool shop, a rail terminal, a 40,000 gallon water
storage tank, a cooling water reservoir, electric lighting plant and water softening
plant.

Unused and in a state of disrepair at time of inspection.

Listing NGR: TQ1928862047

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26525976

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