BUILT HERITAGE SURVEY REPORT Site 3: Hammersmith Pumping Station

A Level 1 standing building record undertaken in May 2016 by MOLA, at the site of the Hammersmith Pumping Station in the borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Distillery Road lies to the east and Chancellor road to the north. The record commissioned by Thames Tideway Tunnel is required as a condition of planning consent for the removal of non-statutory designated elements of the pumping station. The elements recorded include a 1960's Brutalist screen house, the north-west to south-east aligned boundary wall and concrete access steps associated with the main Hammersmith pumping station entrance. General views of the Screen House, boundary wall and access steps in its setting as well as its external and internal (where possible) appearance in all elevations have been captured in digital photographs. Some earlier features of the access steps have also been photographed and described. The Screen House and northwest-southeast aligned boundary wall comprise a single phase of construction. The northeast-southwest section was clearly demolished and rebuilt on the same alignment and height with concrete blocks, presumably by way of repair and replacement of the original wall build in this section of the site. The access steps included a replacement balustrade at some point in the past. The construction of the original phases of boundary wall and Screen House dated to the mid 1960's and presented a typical minimalist and brutalist style structure. The access stairs may have been added slighter later, based on the mass poured concrete being of a different type to that of the rest of the structure; however it may also be of 1960's date.