Amwell Hill Pumping Station
AMWELL HILL PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Amwell Hill Pumping Station
- Statutory Address:
- AMWELL HILL PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Amwell Hill Pumping Station
- Statutory Address 1:
- AMWELL HILL PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL
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:
- AMWELL HILL PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Amwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36779 12783
Details
GREAT AMWELL AMWELL HILL TL 3612 (east side)
11/5 Amwell Hill Pumping Station
24. 7. 75 (formerly listed under Pepper Hill) II
Pumping Station of 1849 by William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863) as Engineer to the New River Company. A tall classical building of one high storey facing W. Boiler house in lean-to at rear a little later. Fine yellow stock brick with buff brick gauged arches to arcading on front and sides and to square headed windows. Low pitched slate roof, hipped at front and concealed by a bold stucco cornice with blocking course higher in the middle. Eaves overhang at sides. Raking gable parapet at rear with fat, square chimney, tapering above a projecting band which continues round the building below the eves. Front has triple arcade with plinth and imposts and a recessed sash window with 6/6 panes in each bay - centre one blocked. Small door, and window with slender cast iron bars, in outer bays of S side each with square heads under segmental triple arcade. Taller central round-arched opening on N side with upper part glazed with radial bars, flanked by sash windows in side bays. Large opening presumably lit the steam engine and facilitated its building (converted to electricity in 1944). The earliest extant pumping station in Hertfordshire: built to pump into the New River (Branch Johnson (1970) 100: Pevsner (1977) 150).
Listing NGR: TL3677912783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355810
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 150
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 100
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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