Scheduled Monument: Eastney sewage pumping station (1001791)

A sewage pumping station erected in 1868, as a result of 1864 proposals to provide sewers on Portsea Island to a discharge point next to Fort Cumberland. The original pair of 25hp Clayton beam engines was scrapped in 1922, but their engine and connected boiler house remains. These are brick and slate buildings with stone detailing, now used as workshops. Included in the schedule as the first buildings on the site. In 1887 a new pump house and boiler house was commissioned. The engines which still survive, are a pair of Boulton and Watt compound condensing beam engines supplied with steam from an adjacent boiler house. The boilers here are not the originals, but the whole is in good condition and regularly steamed. The engine house is a rectangular brick building with stone detailing and a pitched slate roof. The boiler house is similar, but has twin gabled slate roof with louvred ventilators adjacent is a stumpy brick chimney strengthened with iron bands. Next to the boiler house is the cooling pond. W of this is a rectangular brick building four bays by three with a pitched slate roof with clerestory. This contains 3 now very rare 180hp Crossley gas engines, each powering a Tangye centrifugal pump. These began work in 1904. Although no longer in use, they remain in good condition. Included within the scheduled area are a number of small brick buildings - value houses and workshops. Not included are the electrically driven pumps still in use.