Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3579 RENFORTH STREET
636-1/6/633 London Hydraulic Power Company
01/07/83 former Pumping Station

II

Pumping station, later engineering works. Dated 1902. For
London Hydraulic Power Company (with company name on plaque).
Local stock and Suffolk brick with red brick dressings to
semicircular window arches.
Main block of pump room ranged east-west has a lofty series of
arched windows and oculi in the gable ends which have stepped
brick detailing and parapet gables to clerestory. Tall
tapering octagonal chimney stack on tall square base with
engineering brick plinth at north-west corner of pump room.
Accumulator tower with blind arcading, panelled frieze,
cornice and parapet raised in gable over short sides. Lower
north blocks support large panelled cast-iron settling tanks,
carried on steel frame internally.
Was in its original use until 1977; pumps and engines since
removed. More recent use as engineering works. Following the
company's Wapping Station, this one established the design
type for the company's subsequent stations.

Listing NGR: TQ3537879581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665583

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)