Crofton Pumping Station
CROFTON PUMPING STATION
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1034049
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Crofton Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- CROFTON PUMPING STATION
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1034049
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Crofton Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROFTON PUMPING STATION
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CROFTON PUMPING STATION
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bedwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 26146 62269
Details
GREAT BEDWYN CROFTON SU 26 SE 5/93 Crofton Pumping Station 5.1985 GV I Pumping Station for the Kennet and Avon Canal Co. 1802-9, John Rennie, chief engineer, enlarged 1843 and restored 1971. Group of buildings comprising engine house, boiler house, side boiler house and various attached structures. Pumphouse of brickwork, English bond, with hipped large slate roof. Four-storey 4 window bays. Entrance off centre on north gable, round headed, with access across header leat. Lower boiler house attached by gable to south, brick with slate roof and large fanlight. Engine house with 12- pane sashes, 6-pane to top floor. Boiler house with gable window. Further boiler house to side of 1843. Interior: Engine house has 2 pumping engines, No 1, of 1812 by Boulton and Watt with condenser and parallel motion. Six-ton 9 m cast iron beam. Valves modified 1843 and condenser relocated. No 2 engine by Harvey & Co of Hayle, 1843, cylinder replaced 1903. Both engines 1.066 m cylinder bore, 2.44 m stroke raising 1 ton of water each stroke, 12 and 9 strokes per minute respectively. Water is raised 12.19 m from a tunnel from the reservoir and canal pound supplemented from canal lock No 63 after 1847. Water is laundered into header leat (now derelict) leading to summit of canal 1500 m to the west, above lock 62. Boilers of Lancashire type replacing originals in 1896. 8.2 m x 2.28 m diameter. A subsidiary pump was installed 1826 to supply water to Tottenham House (q.v.). The engines are the earliest steam beam engines still in working order. The pumping station is the key element in an important group of industrial and utilitarian monuments in Crofton, which also includes the reservoir outfall (q.v.) locks (q.v.), the Great Western Railway and a 1939-45 pillbox.
Listing NGR: SU2614662269
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310817
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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