Latitude: 53.3954 / 53°23'43"N
Longitude: -3.0127 / 3°0'45"W
OS Eastings: 332757
OS Northings: 389206
OS Grid: SJ327892
Mapcode National: GBR 7YD5.KK
Mapcode Global: WH876.PXLD
Plus Code: 9C5R9XWP+5W
Entry Name: Shore Road Pumping Station and Boundary Walls Now Attached to New Entrance
Listing Date: 10 August 1992
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1282538
English Heritage Legacy ID: 389345
ID on this website: 101282538
Location: Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, CH41
County: Wirral
Electoral Ward/Division: Birkenhead and Tranmere
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Birkenhead
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Merseyside
Church of England Parish: Birkenhead Christ the King
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Building
BIRKENHEAD
SJ3289 SHORE ROAD 789-1/9/144 Shore Road Pumping Station and boundary walls now attached to new entrance
GV II
Pumping station. c1886. By James Brunlees and Charles Douglas Fox, engineers. Brick with Welsh slate roof. Tall 3-storeyed Italianate style building with 6 bays of blind arcading and small round arched windows at upper level divided by buttresses. External stair tower added c1989. The building housed 2 "grasshopper" beam engines, one of which survives in situ. It was built in connection with the Mersey railway, the steam pumping engines drawing water from the rail tunnel. The engines and pump were manufactured by Andrew Barclay of Kilmarnock.
Listing NGR: SJ3275789206
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