Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney
BROADMEADS PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY, NEW RIVER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275446
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney
- Statutory Address:
- BROADMEADS PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY, NEW RIVER
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275446
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROADMEADS PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY, NEW RIVER
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:
- BROADMEADS PUMPING STATION AND CHIMNEY, 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 35318 13975
Details
WARE TOWN
TL3513NW NEW RIVER 829-1/12/198 (North side) 04/01/74 Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney (Formerly Listed as: HERTFORD ROAD Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney)
II
Pumping station with adjoining house. Built 1881 by the New River Company. The main portion is a tall building of 2 storeys and attic. Yellow-brown stock brick, with vivid yellow dressings, rusticated quoins, Welsh slated roofs. 3 sash windows on first floor; 2 large round-headed windows on ground floor. Dentil eaves cornice, pedimented gables with circular windows, and gabled ends left and right. Adjoining to left small wing of lower elevation and L-shaped plan. 2 storeys, Welsh slated roof, yellow brick, 3 windows. Tall detached brick chimney to the right, battered profile, above square base with dentil cornice, with dentil cornice below set back top. At rear is single storey wing, yellow-brown brick with vivid yellow dressings, and Welsh slated roof. Arched semicircular windows, with glazing bars and stone cills, 2 in main elevation and one in east gable end. (The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 100, 179).
Listing NGR: TL3531813975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412225
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 100
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 179
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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