Listed Building: DOCK ROAD PUMPING STATION (1240202)

NORTHWICH SJ 67 SE WEIR STREET (west side) 5/10000 Dock Road Pumping Station GV II Sewage pump house. 1910. Rustic brick with blue-brick and ashlar dressings; flat roof behind crenellated parapet. Circular; single storey. Chamfered blue-brick plinth band. Round-arched, quoined doorway faces Weir Street and has boarded double doors with ornamental strap hinges. Flanking the doorway are square rain-water pipes with decorative hoppers. Set around the building are seven 8-pane windows with chamfered sills and voussoired, round arches; each is set in a recessed panel with blue-brick offset bands below and above. Nosed string course beneath crenellated parapet with flat copings. Interior: two 3-cylinder pumps by Hayward Tyler and Co. of London and two engines by Crossley Bros. Ltd. of Manchester. The machinery dates from 1910 and was originally gas-fuelled. Rare example of a gas-powered pumping station for sewage treatment. Listing NGR: SJ6569573213