Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3574NW CHELTENHAM ROAD 636-1/62/203 Honor Oak Pumping Station

GV II

Deep well pumping station. 1902-1905. By JW Restler. For the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, taken over by the Metropolitan Water Board, which completed the project. Holloway Bros of Lambeth, builder. Italianate style. MATERIALS: red brick structure with yellow facing bricks; dressings of York stone; arches in gauged Burham bricks. Roof covered in slate and supported by steel trusses and framing that over the boiler house 4-span; that over the engine house, which projects, transept fashion, beyond boiler house, of one span. PLAN: engine Square tower to south-west of engine house. EXTERIOR: one or two storeys; 8 bays to main elevation. Central 2 storey feature with 2 round-headed windows with keystone and impost blocks, flanked by pilasters and with stone balustrading above. Mansard roof with cast iron cresting. Projecting porch with round-headed doorcase with keystone and impost blocks. This is flanked by one storey wings with three round-headed windows under stone balustrading with hipped roof with cast iron cresting. Set back two storey wing with similar windows behind. To the north a single-storey, 2 span utility extension. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: the first deep wells were contemplated in the late C19, supplanting collection pools and rivers. This Southwark and Vauxhall Company was an amalgamation of earlier companies and formed in 1845. A reservoir was erected at Hampton after 1852, having moved from Kennington. In 1871 work began on four covered reservoirs at Nunhead, whose elevated position enabled the company to provide pressurised service to the area's inhabitants. With the expansion of London in the late C19, it was soon realised that conventional collection systems could not supply the growing population of the south-east. It was discovered that there was sufficient, pure ground water trapped in chalk, protected by a layer of clay. The company exploited the presence of clay on the site by setting up a large brick kiln, brickmaking machinery and a brick dryer. Between 1898 and 1900 more than 19,000,000 bricks were made for use in the company's works projects. The first well was bored in 1901. It was approx 4m (11 feet) in diameter and approx 91m (300 feet) deep. Tenders were

accepted in July 1902 for the construction of this pumping station. The builder Holloway Bros. of Belvedere Road, Lambeth was awarded the tender. The massive covered reservoir, which is not included in this designation, was completed in 1909.

Listing NGR: TQ3533574845

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