Details
BOUGHTON WHINNEY LANE
SK 66 NE
(west side)
3/12 Minor pump house
at Boughton
Pumping Station
G.V. II
Water pump house. 1905. By W. B. Starr. Renaissance Revival
style. Brick and rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and
gabled and hipped Westmorland slate roofs. Moulded plinth, 2
sill bands, modillioned cornice, some dentillated eaves, coped
gables with kneelers and obelisk finials. 3 storeys, 6 unequal
bays. L-plan. Windows are mostly glazing bar casements of
various shapes. Most openings have keystoned heads. South gable
has 2 storey central bay with steps with ramped scrolled
balustrade, rockfaced parapet and ball finials, leading to
portico with Tuscan columns, foliate soffit and semi-circular
head. Pair of round headed panelled doors. To right, single
storey range with 2 bay blind arcade and above, casement with
segmental head. To right again, gable with round moulded window.
West side has projecting central filter house, 3 storeys, 3 bays.
To west 3 casements with shaped heads, flanked by 2 similar
casements. Above, 3 central Diocletian windows flanked by 2
similar windows, all in recessed bays. Above again, 3 casements
with dentillated heads and flanking columns, and above again,
octagonal cupola with squat columns and copper ogee dome.
Filter house has to north and south 2 casements with shaped
heads; above, 2 Diocletian windows in recessed bays, and above
again, 2 casements with squat flanking shafts. North gable has
pair of central half-glazed recessed doors with overlight in the
form of a Diocletian window, with moulded surround, cornice with
scroll brackets and finials. Above, mullioned tripartite
casement with 4 squat shafts on wreathed corbels carrying moulded
entablature and segmental pediment. East side has to left,
projecting gabled single storey range, 3 bays, 2 with hipped
clerestorey roofs. To left, a pair of doors with segmental
head, shaped brackets to hood, and above, oval window with hood
mould. To right, 2 round headed windows with hood moulds, and
corner buttress with shaped cap. To right, setback bay with 3
recesses containing casements with shaped heads. Above, 3
gables containing wreathed shields. To right again, 3
Diocletian windows in recesses. Above, 2 higher gables each
with a casement with segmental head, and to right, another gable
with wreathed shield. Interior has strutted king post roof.
Glazed brick finish throughout.
Listing NGR: SK6675769184
