Castle Carr Water Garden and Pumphouse
CASTLE CARR WATER GARDEN AND PUMPHOUSE, CASTLE CARR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272650
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Carr Water Garden and Pumphouse
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE CARR WATER GARDEN AND PUMPHOUSE, CASTLE CARR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272650
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Carr Water Garden and Pumphouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE CARR WATER GARDEN AND PUMPHOUSE, CASTLE CARR ROAD
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:
- CASTLE CARR WATER GARDEN AND PUMPHOUSE, CASTLE CARR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wadsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0236430013
Details
Off CASTLE CARR ROAD
1.1164
SE 03 SW - SE 02 NW Castle Carr Water Garden, and Pumphouse
1/50 3/50
II
2.
Ornamental water garden, situated between two reservoirs. Completed 1870. Designed by James Hogg of Halifax. The garden consists of a main circular pool with a central single jet fountain which rose to a height of 100 feet, reputed the second highest in England. This pool is fed by a stepped cascade from the north with flanking staircases and at the top of a double arched tunnel/bridge with plain ashlar parapets. To the north west, north east, south west and south east a similar smaller circular pool each with a
single jet fountain. Beyond to the north west another small circular pool and an octagonal pumphouse. This rock-faced pumphouse has a chamfered plinth, bracketed cornice and chamfered parapet. The entrance front has double plank doors, chamfered jambs and an inscribed lintel and gable, 1870 HALIFAX CORPORATION, LUDDENDEN VALLEY EXTENSIONS, and the side fronts have single blocked windows. The south end of the pool has a further smaller and lower circular pool within it, with curved waterfalls. At the north edge of this smaller pool is a viewing platform reached by a series of 3 stone flying staircases linked by small curved bridges in the lower pool. These form a central island with 4 cut-water buttresses which project above
the parapet wall. To the south of this pool is a long narrow canal, which discharges its water down another cascade at its southern end into the lower reservoir. All the stone abutment walls are rock-faced ashlar, with chamfered ashlar parapets. This water garden was designed by James Hogg and built by Halifax Water Corporation, for Mr J P Edwards the owner of Castle Carr, within whose grounds the garden is sited. It was constructed as compensation for using his land in the damning of the Luddenden Valley
in order to provide further water for the fast expanding city of Halifax.
Listing NGR: SE0236430013
This asset was previously listed twice. The duplicate record (List entry number 1265210) was removed from the List on 5 December 2018. The remaining record (List entry number 1272650) falls within the parishes of both Halifax and Wadsworth.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447633
- 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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