Main Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station and Adjoining Boiler House and Workshops
MAIN PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION AND ADJOINING BOILER HOUSE AND WORKSHOPS, WHINNEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302865
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Main Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station and Adjoining Boiler House and Workshops
- Statutory Address:
- MAIN PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION AND ADJOINING BOILER HOUSE AND WORKSHOPS, WHINNEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1302865
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Main Pump House at Boughton Pumping Station and Adjoining Boiler House and Workshops
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIN PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION AND ADJOINING BOILER HOUSE AND WORKSHOPS, WHINNEY 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:
- MAIN PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION AND ADJOINING BOILER HOUSE AND WORKSHOPS, WHINNEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ollerton and Boughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 66781 69237
Details
BOUGHTON WHINNEY LANE SK 66 NE (west side) 3/11 Main pump house at Boughton Pumping Station and adjoining boiler house and 21.11.74 workshops
G.V. II
Water pumping house. 1905. By W. B. Starr. Baroque Revival Style. Brick with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Chamfered plinth, ashlar bands, string course, textured brick panels, modillioned cornice, coped parapet and gables. Single octagonal rear wall stack. 3 storeys plus basement, 5 unequal bays, square plan. Eastern entrance front has projecting central bay with double stair flights with coped parapets and square piers. Basement below has central casement with segmental head and keystone. Central double door with modillioned lintel and overlight with keystoned segmental head. Flanked by single casements with keystoned segmental heads, and single scrollwork cartouches. Above, central Diocletian window flanked by single strapwork cartouches with keystoned heads, and beyond, single smaller Diocletian windows. Above again, attic storey has central double casement with balusters and pediment, flanked by blank recessed panels in parapet. South front has a round headed recessed bay at each end. To left, 2 storey opening with segmental head. To its right, 4 basement windows and above them, 4 casements with segmental heads, all in recessed panels. Above again, 3 Diocletian windows in recessed panels, flanked by single larger Diocletian windows with balusters. Above again, parapet with 3 blank panels flanked by shaped gables with single pedimented tripartite casements. To left, workshop, single storey, 5 bays, has 2 central dormers with mullioned and transomed casements and shaped gables. To left, door with overlight, flanked by single casements of different sizes. To right, pair of carriage doors with segmental head and overlight. Adjoining boiler house, to west, 2 storey, 6 bays, has hipped clerestorey roof and shaped gables with kneelers. West side has 6 bay arcade with segmental heads, containing 2 doors. To its right, lean-to building with mullioned and transomed casement flanked to left by door and to right by door and single casement. Above, 6 mullioned and transomed casements. Gables have each a similar casement. North side has setback bay to east, with square chimney base with moulded cornice.
Listing NGR: SK6678169237
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 241862
- 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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