SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION

SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION, SPRINGHEAD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219405
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address:: SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION, SPRINGHEAD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1219405
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address 1:: SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION, SPRINGHEAD AVENUE

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Location

Statutory Address:: SPRINGHEAD PUMPING STATION, SPRINGHEAD AVENUE

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

District:: City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 04167 29436

Details

TA02NW 680-1/7/365

KINGSTON UPON HULL SPRINGHEAD AVENUE (West side (off)) Springhead Pumping Station

(Formerly listed as Yorkshire Water Museum)

II

Water pumping station, later waterworks museum. 1863, by Thomas Dale, engineer. Western addition 1876. Remodelled internally, east porch added and chimney demolished, 1956. Late C20 alterations. Red brick with yellow brick, moulded brick and ashlar dressings and slate and corrugated asbestos roofs. Main block and western addition have plinth, first-floor band, and moulded cornice with machicolations. Bays are divided by full height pilasters, and windows are set in shallow round-arched recesses. Windows are mainly round-arched metal-framed glazing bar casements with keystones. Main block, 2 storeys; 5-window range. Projecting central square stair tower, 2 stages, topped with an octagonal lantern with broaches, round-arched openings and a shallow pitched roof with a weather vane. Tall round-arched window and above, a round glazing bar window with 4 keystones under a pediment. Ground floor right return has a smaller window. On either side, 2 windows. Below, a similar smaller window and beyond, a taller window. Rear has 5 windows to the first floor. Right return has pedimented gable with a plain round window and above, a round-arched window. Below, a pedimented brick porch with glazed double door and fanlight with keystone. Single window on either side. To left of the main block, a single bay link building with a window between floors, and below it, a pair of board doors. 1876 addition, to west, 3 storeys; 5-window range. Ground-floor windows are taller. Second floor has pairs of smaller round-arched windows. Rear has similar fenestration to the upper floors. Right return has a round-arched window and above it, a graduated triple window. Below, a round-arched door with a round window above it. Left return has a blank round window in the gable and below, a glazed double door with fanlight, and above it, a round-arched window. At the rear, former boiler houses, single-storey; 11-window range. Windows are set in panels divided by pilasters. East side has 7 windows, then 2 blocked openings with inserted doors, then a window, and finally a blank bay. West side has blocked openings to left and to right, a lean-to projection with 2 windows flanked to left by two C20 doors with fanlights and to right by a segment-headed door and another window. INTERIOR. 1876 addition has iron trussed roof with wooden span beams. A hand cranked travelling crane runs on tracks at the top of the walls. In the south-west corner, a cast-iron spiral stair with first floor landing. Single acting Cornish beam engine with wrought-iron beam pivoted on 4 cast-iron Doric columns linked by segmental arches. Steam chest and valve gear are carried on a similar pair of columns, and the first floor landing gives access to them and to the piston rod. Fluted cast-iron pump cylinder has corniced top. Pump, ram and balance weight are carried by a girder frame set in a cast-iron well lining. The engine worked from 1876 to 1910. This building and engine are representative of C19 municipal water works, and illustrate how "...an architecture founded in objective functionalism ... could be used to create a polite and elegant building whose purpose was nevertheless unmistakeable." (Douet). (Yorkshire Water Museum: Springhead Pumping Station - A Brief Description; Bristol Polytechnic T&CP Working Paper No.28: Douet J: Temples of Steam: Bristol: 1992-: 15, 23).

Listing NGR: TA0416729436

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Legacy System number:: 387806
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Springhead Pumping Station A Brief Description
Douet, J, 'Town and Country Planning Working Paper' in Temples Of Steam, , Vol. 28, (1992), 15 23

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.