The Pump House Public House
THE PUMP HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE, CUMBERLAND BASIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279539
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Pump House Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PUMP HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE, CUMBERLAND BASIN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279539
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Pump House Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PUMP HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE, CUMBERLAND BASIN
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:
- THE PUMP HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE, CUMBERLAND BASIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57150 72331
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772 CUMBERLAND BASIN, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1287 (North side) 18/02/72 The Pump House Public House (Formerly Listed as: CUMBERLAND BASIN Hydraulic Engine House)
II
Hydraulic engine house, now public house. c1870. By Thomas Howard. Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a pantile hipped roof. Single storey; 4-window range. Engine house and left-hand square 2-stage acccumulator tower have pronounced quoins, jambs and voussoirs. The engine house has a central block with paired hipped roofs with ridge lights, a wide elliptical-arched carriage entrance to the right, and large semicircular-arched window to the left, with paired eaves brackets at the corners; right-hand section set back has a small semicircular-arched doorway to the right, with a narrow window above. The tower has a semicircular-arched doorway, and narrow window above, and brackets to the pyramidal roof with a wrought-iron weather vane; in the left return is a large cross arrow slit. INTERIOR: remodelled and converted to a public house. Designed by Howard, the Docks Engineer, to provide hydraulic power to the Cumberland Basin. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 62).
Listing NGR: ST5715072331
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lord, J, Southam, J, The Floating Harbour, (1983), 62
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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