Fulwell Water Pumping Station Engine House And Boiler House With Steps Attached

Fulwell Water Pumping Station engine house and boiler house with steps attached was built in 1852 by Thomas Hawksley. This structure is made of brick, featuring diaper work in the tower, with an ashlar plinth and dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with ridge copings. It is designed in the 13th-century fortified Gothic style.

The engine house is two stories tall with four windows, while the boiler house consists of two one-story ranges. The ashlar coping of the plinth continues along the dwarf walls that flank the steps leading up to the boarded double doors of the engine house. The high door features elaborate wrought-iron hinges and is surrounded by a pointed arch with deep roll mouldings, interrupted by foliage capitals, and a ball-flower stopped dripmould. The buttresses have large irregular quoins and two coped set-backs, with the second set-back located just above the first floor level. On the first floor, there are three 4-centred-arched lights in irregular stone jambs beneath a flat stone lintel, and a corbel table above leads to a coped parapet that rises from the buttresses. The roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with roll-moulded ridge coping.

The returns of the engine house feature similar end and central buttresses, a set-back at the first floor, a corbelled parapet, and lancets on the ground floor with 4-centred lights above. The right return has four windows, while the left return has three. The southeast square tower is attached at the left end, showcasing a high stepped plinth, irregular quoins, and diaper pattern brickwork, with lancets in the full-height first stage; the roof has been removed. The two boiler house ranges are positioned at right angles to the engine house and have 4-centred-arched entrances on the east side, paired shouldered lights on the west with trefoils above, all under gables. The roofs of the boiler houses are adorned with decorative terracotta ridge cresting.