Description

GAS WORKS ROAD
1.
5128
Blakes Lock Sewage
Pumping Station
The Engine House
SU 7273 7/600
II G.V.
2. Engine House. C.1870. Red brick walls with grey brick patterning; stone and
grey brick dressings; cast iron small-pane windows; red tile roof. T-plan, the
west block originally housing the boilers, the east block the steam engines. Later
C19 addition in north east angle; further extended C20 chimney (to north west)
demolished. Free gothic style. Main (south) elevation to River Kennet has, in
gable to left, arcade of 3 bays, defined by plain brick piers carrying segmental
arches. Centre bay has double-leaf doors, outer bays originally single doors,
now timber casements, between brick panels, under full width cast iron overlights.
Large sexfoil window to gable. Block to right has 3 pairs of pilaster buttresses
with lancets between, above a tall plinth (pierced by two C20 windows). Intervening
bays are to left, large gothic doorway with solid, shouldered head bearing arms
of Borough of Reading and fitted with pair of three quarter glazed doors, all set
in gabled brick panel; to centre bay, a cinquefoil window; to right, a round-headed
doorway now blocked. Corbel-table in brick to eaves and verges, elaborately detailed.
Gothic iron ventilators to ridge.

Listing NGR: SU7248273500

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540879

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)