Description

A B Macdonald, city engineer, dated 1904. Sewage pumping station; Scots Renaissance. 1 and 2 storeys, with sunk lower floors to side and rear. Various roof heights. 4-bay E section, single bay projecting gable-fronted linking section, lower 5-bay office section with single, gabled W bay. Polished ashlar, brick rear elevations.

W section to Dumbarton Road: bays arranged 1-2-1, outer bays advanced with crow-stepped gables, 4 ground floor level keyblocked thermal windows with moulded cills. 3-light, column mullioned windows above, segmentally aediculed in central outer windows, modillion cornice to centre, parapet.

Projecting central bay: keyblocked arched recess through 1st and 2nd floor, bowed tripartite ground floor window with column mullions, thermal window above.

Simple E section with 5 sash and case windows in architraves with bracketted cills; console bracketted cornice, embattled parapet. Further W gable with kneelers and apex block, keyblocked thermal window at ground floor.

E return elevation: low level keyblocked, arched entrance set in stepped architrave with relief sculpture, flanked by blind oculi. Tripartite window over. Crow-stepped gable. Semi-engaged embattled corner turret corbelled out over ground floor. Turreted covered pipeway over River Kelvin at E. Plain rear elevations with E section detailed as Dumbarton Road elevation. Polygonal brick chimney stack with frieze, cornice and parapet.

Interior: elliptically arched, pilastered, polychromatically-tiled pump room. Mezzanine gallery carried on cast-iron half-fluted columns. Moving crane dated 1902.

Statement of Interest

Originally steam powered. Part of Kelvingrove Park West B group, comprising 10 Dumbarton Road, Partick Bridge over River Kelvin, Anderson's College, The Snow Bridge, 2-4 Dumbarton Road Sunlight Cottages, University Main Block, Art Gallery and Museum and The Cameronians Monument.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17796845

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)