Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park

Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park, Park Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135467
Date first listed:: 06-May-1988
List Entry Name:: Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park
Statutory Address:: Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park, Park Lane

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1135467
Date first listed:: 06-May-1988
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jun-1990
List Entry Name:: Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park
Statutory Address 1:: Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park, Park Lane

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Location

Statutory Address:: Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park, Park Lane

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District:: Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: West Bretton
National Grid Reference:: SE 29008 12531

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 September 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SE21SE 8/96

WEST BRETTON PARK ROAD (south side, off) Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park.

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Overflow, weirs and pumphouse. The overflow and weirs probably c.1782 (date of Lower Lake), the pump house probably early C19. The overflow and weirs are lined in coursed squared stone with slight tooling or vermiculation. The pump house is of coursed square rubble with quoins and has a stone slate roof. The top weir forms the east end of The Cut which flows eastward to the north of the lakes. The overflow runs through a tunnel-vaulted skew-bridge to join the second weir in a 90x curve. The third weir is shallower. All the weirs are stepped and concave and the upper two weirs each have a drop of approximately 5 metres.

The pump house has an internal brick wall which farms a wheel-housing containing an iron-spoked water wheel of approximately 2 metres (6 feet) in diameter. The other chamber contains a crankshaft with two connecting rods to a pump. The goit driving the wheel appears to have been blocked. The pump is said to have been used to pump drinking water from a lower level up to the main house approximately 700 metres away.

Listing NGR: SE2900812531

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Legacy System number:: 342592
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.