Former Crossness Pumping Station

Beam Engine House, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way, SE2 9AQ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064241
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:: Former Crossness Pumping Station
Statutory Address:: Beam Engine House, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way, SE2 9AQ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1064241
Date first listed:: 24-Jun-1970
List Entry Name:: Former Crossness Pumping Station
Statutory Address 1:: Beam Engine House, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way, SE2 9AQ

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Beam Engine House, Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, Bazalgette Way, SE2 9AQ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Bexley (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 48497 81080

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28 May 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 48 SE 1/1

Belvedere BAZALGETTE WAY Crossness Sewage Treatment Works Beam Engine House

(Formerly listed as BELVEDERE ROAD Crossness Pumping Station)

24.6.70.

I

Opened 4 April 1865. Engineer: Joseph Bazalgette. Two storeys, yellow brick. Three-one-three bays divided by pilasters; the windows simple Romanesque style with three round headed lights. Machicolated cornice between the pilasters, cornice across all above this. Punctuated capped parapet. Three jointed one storey parallel gabled ranges at right angles to main block. The gable ends have black round arches containing a three light window (each with round head). Circular window in tympanum side elevation with series of joined round headed windows.

Interior: Important cast iron architectural treatment and four colossal beam engines by James Watt and Co.

Reference: Architectural Review December 1969. Article by John Smith with photographs and engraving.

Listing NGR: TQ4849781080

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Legacy System number:: 198633
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Architectural Review' in December, (1969)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.