AMWELL MARSH PUMPING STATION

AMWELL MARSH PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342221
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: AMWELL MARSH PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address:: AMWELL MARSH PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1342221
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: AMWELL MARSH PUMPING STATION
Statutory Address 1:: AMWELL MARSH PUMPING STATION, AMWELL HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: AMWELL MARSH 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 37608 12339

Details

GREAT AMWELL AMWELL LANE TL 3712 (south side)

12/4 Amwell Marsh Pumping Station GV II

Pumping Station building. 1883 for the New River Company, erected by Frederick Hitch of Ware. Yellow stock brick with portland stone dressings, red brick inset panels and hipped red tile roofs. A tall rectangular engine house raised on a high base with outside stair at rear (S). Elaborate arcaded treatment with recessed panels of red brick. Portland stone used for moulded necking, imposts, dripmould, corbelled window sills and large brackets to wide eaves. 3-bay E-face has round arched windows in the outer bays at 2 levels with cast iron frames. 2-bay S front and N front to road similar. Low single storey L-shaped range attached on W has same elaborate treatment and arcading. Originally steam driven and said to have had a beam-engine. Forms a group with the Engineers House beside The New River. (Branch Johnson (1970) 100: Pevsner (1977) 150).

Listing NGR: TL3760812339

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Legacy System number:: 355814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 100
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 150

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.