List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: SURREY STREET PUMPING STATION
List Entry Number: 1079248
Location
SURREY STREET PUMPING STATION, SURREY STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Greater London Authority
District: Croydon
District Type: London Borough
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 27-Apr-1992
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 201300
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5009
TQ 3265 1005-/9/10001
SURREY STREET
Surrey Street Pumping Station
II
Pumping Station. Built in 4 phases. Earliest Engine House, 1851,
probably by Thomas Cox, with further engine house of 1867 by
Baldwin Latham, further extension of 1876-7 designed by Thomas
Walker and built by Smith of South Norwood to house
a compound horizontal engine and further extension of 1912. 1851
building is popularly supposed to be the converted and
transported West Croydon atmospheric railway station's engine
house of 1845 and it is possible some of the materials were re-used
from the earlier building.
Neo-Tudor style. Brown brick with stone quoins. Slate roof. 2
storeys over tall brick plinth - 5-light stone oriel window on
west gable wall with date plaques over. North front has 2 3-light
windows on each floor with 4 centred heads and labels. Single
dormer. Gable over left hand windows. To the north is the engine
house of 1867 by C Baldwin Latham in castellated Gothic style.
Built of stock brick with polychrome brown brick and stone
dressings. 2 storeys over tall brick plinth with octagonal
castellated tower at north end. This has pseudo-machicolations
windows, and lancet . North front has 2 3-light windows,
casements with leaded lights, on each floor with pointed heads,
polychrome voussoirs and zigzag decoration in 3 colours of brick
(yellow, red and black). Castellated parapet with pseudo-
machicolations. Buttresses. Concrete door surround dated 1954.
South addition of 1877 by Thomas Walker, stock brick with stone
dressings.
1 storey 5 windows. Recessed window bays with step up to door in
North bay under gable. South face has gable with occulis and 2
lancets. West addition of 1912 in stock brick and red brick with
slate roof.
[See "Buildings of England: South London" p216 Aubrey Wilson
"London Industrial Heritage" 1967 p117]
Listing NGR: TQ3220365379
Selected Sources
Books and journalsCherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983)
Wilson, A, London Industrial Heritage, (1967), 117
Map
National Grid Reference: TQ 32202 65384
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