Description

GAS WORKS ROAD
1
5128
Blakes Lock Sewage
Pumping Station
The Pump and Turbine
House
SU 7273 7/602
II
G.V.
Pump and Turbine House. C.1870. Red brick walls with grey brick patterning; stone
and grey brick dressings; cast iron small pane windows; red tile roof. Rectangular
building, with Pump House slightly wider and higher to north, Turbine House extending
southwards into River Kennet. PumpHouse of 3 bays, the 2 lefthand bays breaking
forward slightly and gabled, with cinquefoil window to gable. Lower windows tall,
round-headed, elaborate brick arches with stone springers and keystones. Brick
corbel-table to gable and verges; roof hipped to right with gablet. Detailing
similar to Engine House (q.v). Turbine House has 3 tripartite windows under segmental
brick arches, between groups of pilaster buttresses. Eaves as Pump House. The
sewage pumps, and two of three turbines by Gilks, replacing originals by their
predecessors Williamson Bros of Kendal, remain in situ.

Listing NGR: SU7251373492

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607731

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)