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Latitude: 51.489 / 51°29'20"N
Longitude: -0.2907 / 0°17'26"W
OS Eastings: 518774
OS Northings: 178059
OS Grid: TQ187780
Mapcode National: GBR 7Y.WZD
Mapcode Global: VHGQW.XT6W
Plus Code: 9C3XFPQ5+JP
Entry Name: Main Building, Kew Bridge Pumping Station
Listing Date: 21 May 1973
Last Amended: 18 October 1990
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1358343
English Heritage Legacy ID: 202611
ID on this website: 101358343
Location: Strand on the Green, Hounslow, London, TW8
County: London
District: Hounslow
Electoral Ward/Division: Brentford
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Hounslow
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Brentford St Paul
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Building Pumping station Museum building
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TQ 1878
16/194C
BRENTFORD
KEW BRIDGE ROAD
Main Building, Kew Bridge Pumping Station.
GV
I
Engine house. 1836-8, by William Anderson, engineer to the Grand Junction Water Works Company; later alterations, and small addition of c1900. Two storeys, seven x four bays, with small single-storey two x three-bay addition to east side. Silver grey brick with silver Aberdeen granite window cills, plinth, doorcase, cornice etc. 3:1:3 bays. Bold central doorcase having rusticated surround with cornice and blocking course, panelled door below overlight with glazing bars. Round-headed windows to ground floor, square-headed windows above linked by cill band, all small-paned with pivoting casements. Cornice and blocking course. Compression cylinder attached, on left of entrance. Right return similar, but partially masked by addition of cream brick with door and blind, round-arched, window and three round-arched windows to right return. Left return masked by addition, which is listed with the boiler houses (q.v).
Interior: Boulton and Watt pumping engine of 1820 moved here in 1838 from the Grand Junction Water Works at Chelsea; a Cornish Bull Engine of 1859, and other objects brought from elsewhere. The extension was built to house an economiser (to preheat water for boilers).
Listing NGR: TQ1877478059
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