Listed Building: MINOR PUMP HOUSE AT BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION (3.10.8)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
EH LBS Legacy ID | 241863 |
Date assigned | 28 April 1986 |
Date last amended |
Description
Water pump house. 1905. By W. B. Starr. Renaissance Revival style. Brick and rockfaced stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and hipped Westmorland slate roofs. Moulded plinth, 2 sill bands, modillioned cornice, some dentillated eaves, coped gables with kneelers and obelisk finials. 3 storeys, 6 unequal bays. L-plan. Windows are mostly glazing bar casements of various shapes. Most openings have keystoned heads. South gable has 2 storey central bay with steps with ramped scrolled balustrade, rockfaced parapet and ball finials, leading to portico with Tuscan columns, foliate soffit and semi-circular head. Pair of round headed panelled doors. To right, single storey range with 2 bay blind arcade and above, casement with segmental head. To right again, gable with round moulded window. West side has projecting central filter house, 3 storeys, 3 bays. To west 3 casements with shaped heads, flanked by 2 similar casements. Above, 3 central Diocletian windows flanked by 2 similar windows, all in recessed bays. Above again, 3 casements with dentillated heads and flanking columns, and above again, octagonal cupola with squat columns and copper ogee dome. Filter house has to north and south 2 casements with shaped heads; above, 2 Diocletian windows in recessed bays, and above again, 2 casements with squat flanking shafts. North gable has pair of central half-glazed recessed doors with overlight in the form of a Diocletian window, with moulded surround, cornice with scroll brackets and finials. Above, mullioned tripartite casement with 4 squat shafts on wreathed corbels carrying moulded entablature and segmental pediment. East side has to left, projecting gabled single storey range, 3 bays, 2 with hipped clerestorey roofs. To left, a pair of doors with segmental head, shaped brackets to hood, and above, oval window with hood mould. To right, 2 round headed windows with hood moulds, and corner buttress with shaped cap. To right, setback bay with 3 recesses containing casements with shaped heads. Above, 3 gables containing wreathed shields. To right again, 3 Diocletian windows in recesses. Above, 2 higher gables each with a casement with segmental head, and to right, another gable with wreathed shield. Interior has strutted king post roof. Glazed brick finish throughout. (NCC/js)
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SK 66755 69186 (24m by 34m) |
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Map sheet | SK66NE |
District | Newark |
Civil Parish | Boughton, Newark |
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Record last edited
Apr 29 2015 11:39AM