NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION

NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION, NEW RIVER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275444
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1976
List Entry Name:: NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address:: NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION, NEW RIVER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275444
Date first listed:: 25-Oct-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address 1:: NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION, NEW RIVER

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

Location

Statutory Address:: NEW RIVER, AMWELL END PUMPING STATION, NEW RIVER

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ware
National Grid Reference:: TL 36075 13912

Details

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TL3613NW NEW RIVER 829-1/14/204 (North side) 25/10/76 Amwell End Pumping Station (Formerly Listed as: LONDON ROAD Amwell End Pumping Station)

GV II

Pumping station. c1867, with C20 alterations. The earliest pumping station to be erected on the New River was at Amwell Hill in 1847, followed by Amwell End in 1867. The latter consists of an Italianate single T-shaped building, in yellow-brown stock brick, with a Welsh slated roof. Pediment gables to ends of cross-wing, eaves cornice, and building terminates in a low square tower, with one semicircular headed tall small paned window in each side, below brick band, cornice and parapet concealing roof. (The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 179).

Listing NGR: TL3607513912

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Legacy System number:: 412220
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 179

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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.