Description

In the entry for:-

Swan and Pike Lane
TQ 39 NE (east side)
21/288
Water Tower House at King
George Pumping Station

II GV

The description shall be amended to read:-

Water Tower House. Open 1913. Designed by William Booth Bryan for Metropolitan
Water Board. English bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings: Edwardian Baroque
style. Canted ends, each of 3 bays, have rusticated brick pilasters flanking
full-height semi-circular arched entry flanked by similar window openings: each end
is framed by Tuscan columns supporting entablature with plain ashlar parapet.
Entablature is continued across long side walls, which have similar window to centre
of north elevation, and commemorative plaque set in similar architrave to south,
framed by Tuscan columns supporting entablature. Interior: 4 cast-iron water towers
with steel-plate tops.
(The Engineer, March 14, 1913, pp.269-275).

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SWAN AND PIKE LANE
TQ 39 NE
(east side)
21/288 Water Tower House at
King George Pumping
Station

II GV

Water Tower House. Opened 1913. Designed by William Booth Bryan for Metropolitan
Water Board. English bond brick with limestone ashlar dressings: Edwardian Baroque
style. Canted ends, each of 3 bays, have rusticated brick pilasters flanking full-
height semi-circular arched entry flanked by similar window openings: each end
is framed by Tuscan columns supporting entablature with plain ashlar parapet.
Entablature is continued across long side walls, which have similar window to centre
of north elevation, and commemorative plaque set in similar architrave to south,
framed by Tuscan columns supporting entablature. Interior: 5 cast-iron water towers
with steel-plate tops.
(The Engineer, March 14, 1913, pp.269-275).

Listing NGR: TQ3728197873

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q27082817

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