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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1854 to 1954 Borehole pumping station and covered reservoir of 1854. Fine brick engine houses in Romanesque style with later additions and in situ vertical triple expansion engines of 1939. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on available information)

Monument Types

• ENGINE HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1854 AD? to 2050 AD)
• PUMPING STATION (Abandoned, Post Medieval to Modern - 1854 AD to 2050 AD)
• WELL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1854 AD? to 2050 AD)
• STEAM ENGINE (Verticle, Modern - 1937 AD to 2050 AD)
• ENGINE HOUSE (Modern - 1954 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Connaught Pumping Station GII Listed Building. Former pumping station, later museum. Original part of 1854 by Moxon in Romanesque style to house twin pumps and single cylinder beam engines. In 1937 a new triple expansion steam pump was substituted and the building extended in 1954 to house a second steam pump. Original part built in stock brick in English bond but with dressings in Flemish band. Flat roof with brick and cemented parapet (a heightening of 1937 and 1954). Side has 4 circular windows with 4 keystones and deep round- headed arches with impost blocks and decorative glazing and 4 panelled door. End elevation has a top 2 round-headed windows with keystones, below 2 circular windows with 4 keystones and 2 round-headed openings. Rear elevation is similar to front but without doorcase. All sides have pilasters dividing bays, moulded bands between floors and panelled aprons. Interior has 1937 triple expansion steam pump. 1954 addition has a pebbledashed base with yellow brick above in English bond. Flat roof. Side has 3 tall round-headed windows with metal casements, end has 1 large round-headed window with metal casements, 2 tiny round-headed windows above and door with 15 panels. The 1954 steam pump in this part of the pumping station was removed and at the time of survey was situated in The Forncett Industrial Museum in Norfolk. Single storey addition to north east has 4 casements with cemented surrounds and projecting porch with round-headed doorcase with double 6 panelled door. Cemented cornice, pilasters and deep plinth. Pedimented section to north. (See E J Maynard "Historical and Technical Discription of the Former Dover Corporation Waterworks, Connaught Road" 1976). (1)

Pumping Station of 1854 for Dover Corportaion with later extensions and in situ engines. Pumped from wells to adjacent reservoir. At its opening a civic banquet was held in the vaulted reservoir. Note the listing description gives dates of engines as 1854 and 1954, but Douet (1992, 22) gives dates as 1854 and 1882.(2-3)

The GIS polygon associated with this record does not represent the full extent or curtilage of the listed building but merely defines the outline of the building. For further information on the extent of the listed building please contact Dover District Council.

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Douet, J., 1992, Temples of Steam, Page 22 (Monograph). SKE8092.

<3> Trent and Peak Archaeological Unit, 2002, Water & Sewage Industries Step 3 Report, Kent 8 (Unpublished document). SKE8085.

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