Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3579 TUNNEL ROAD
636-1/6/817 (East side)
31/01/74 Engine House and Chimney

II

Engine house. c1842, possibly enlarged 1865; altered several
times and restored 1976. Stock brick with later pantiled roof
of fairly low pitch, kneelers to gable ends.
2 storeys. Blind west return has flat buttresses to 1st floor.
East return mainly blind with various filled in openings;
parapet corbelled out. North end has part of a curved wall to
right and, to left, an attached, taller, square battered
chimney with stone cornice and blocking course above a brick
corbel table; round-arched window at 1st floor with brick
string above. South return has opening to interior. Replica
steel plate chimney stack reinstated in 1993.
INTERIOR: restored as exhibition space for Brunel's machinery.
Built to house pumping machinery for Marc Brunel's tunnel
under the Thames. Included for its historical associations
with the Brunels and the first Thames tunnel (1825-1853).

Listing NGR: TQ3523779870

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26665763

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