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FELTHAM FELTHAMHILL ROAD
TQ 17 SW
787-/44/10022 Kempton Park Pumping
Station (including triple
expansion house and two
attached chimneys)
GV II*

Water pumping station and 2 chimneys. 1929, Henry Stilgoe, Chief Engineer for the Metropolitan
Water Board, built by William Moss. Red brick and Portland stone ashlar and a slate hipped roof.
Rectangular plan with parallel rear boiler house, and rear octagonal chimney connected to matching
chimney ofKempton Park I (1903). Baroque Revival style. Single storey, attic and basement; 7-window
range. A symmetrical front has a banded rusticated plinth, cornice and coped parapet, massive clasping
buttresses have paired pilasters, beneath a raised top section above the cornice with round panels. Ashlar
porch has steps up to panelled doors each side beneath Diocletian windows, cornice and parapet, and a
matching front window. Brick screen walls have tall round-arched windows divided by flat lintels, and
metal framed windows with margin bars. Rectangular attic windows with diagonal glazing bars are
separated by stone strips, with a central panel inscribed 'METROPOLITAN WATER BOARD'.
Projecting raised terrace with banded ashlar walls; ridge lantern. Returns have central doorways and 3
narrow windows, with 2 attic windows. Lower rear engine house. To rear is the parallel boiler house
range. Interior: A tiled interior with green pilasters to the gantry crane, contains a pair of original and
complete Worthington Simpson triple expansion engines at either end, the Sir William Prescott and the
Lady Bessie; brass lamps around the central open basement area made from parts from an 1812 Boulton
and Watt parallel motion beam engine, entrance lobby and stairs to panelled office above, and a walkway
round on steel modillion brackets. Subsidiary features: A unique pair of octagonal brick stacks attached
to the rear with square bases and cornices, the 1929 chimney linked to the c1903 chimney of the
Lilleshall engine house (qv) by a rusticated ashlar arch. Historical note: The apogee of the steam-powered
water pumping engine house, almost the last in the country and containing the two most powerful
pumping engines in Europe. They pumped to the Primary Filter house (1929, not included), and to
service reservoirs. Listable on architectural merit, with group value with the 1904-5 Kempton Park
Lilleshall engine house, with which it once formed the greatest concentration of steam engine power in
Europe, and the unique paired chimneys, and graded for the historical technical interest of the engines.
Also a scheduled ancient monument.

Listing NGR: TQ1101270854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551951

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