Water Pumping House
WATER PUMPING HOUSE, HALSALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297315
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Water Pumping House
- Statutory Address:
- WATER PUMPING HOUSE, HALSALL LANE
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- Reference:
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297315
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Water Pumping House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER PUMPING HOUSE, HALSALL LANE
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:
- WATER PUMPING HOUSE, HALSALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 40790 08643
Details
ORMSKIRK
SD40NW HALSALL LANE 663-1/4/159 (East side) Water Pumping House
GV II
Water pumping house. Dated 1870 over doorway; altered. Red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings and slate roofs on 2 levels. T-plan formed by main range on approx. east-west axis with double-pile range (possibly the former boiler house) across east end. Jacobethan style. The main range has a basement and one tall storey with the appearance of 2 storeys, a gabled 1-window facade and 2-window sides. The facade has a small raised terrace approached by a small flight of steps, wide corner pilasters with quoined corners, a moulded cornice and a large shaped gable; a large square-headed doorway with a heavy stone architrave including an arcaded entablature and cresting with a shield lettered "SALUS PER UNDAS 1870", and above this a mullion-and-transom 8-light window. The sides have shaped gables to the corner pilsters and to a raised centre, and between these similar 8-light windows on both floors. The range to the rear is single-storeyed, with a corbel table and cornice, coupled shaped gables and large round-headed archways with banded surrounds (one a doorway and the other altered as a window); and its rear wall has windows in similar style. INTERIOR: altered machinery pumping water from 2 bore holes. An unusual building of striking architectural appearance, reflecting Victorian awareness of the historical significance of public water supplies; forms group with associated lodge (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SD4079008643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386398
- 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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