Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station

MINOR PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION, WHINNEY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1045622
Date first listed:
28-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station
Statutory Address:
MINOR PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION, WHINNEY LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1045622
Date first listed:
28-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:
Minor Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station
Statutory Address 1:
MINOR PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION, WHINNEY LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
MINOR PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION, WHINNEY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Nottinghamshire
District:
Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Ollerton and Boughton
National Grid Reference:
SK 66757 69184

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

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
241863
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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