Water Pumping House

The Water Pumping House, dated 1870 above the doorway, is a Grade II listed building located on Halsall Lane in Ormskirk. This structure is built of red brick in English bond with sandstone dressings and features slate roofs across two levels. It has a T-plan layout, with the main range oriented approximately east-west and a double-pile range at the east end, which may have been the former boiler house. Designed in the Jacobethan style, the main range includes a basement and one tall storey that gives the appearance of two storeys.

The façade features a gabled design with a single window, while the sides have two windows. A small raised terrace is accessed by a flight of steps, and the façade is enhanced by wide corner pilasters with quoined corners, a moulded cornice, and a large shaped gable. The prominent square-headed doorway is framed by a heavy stone architrave, which includes an arcaded entablature and cresting, displaying a shield inscribed with "SALUS PER UNDAS 1870." Above the doorway is an 8-light window with a mullion and transom. The sides of the building have shaped gables at the corner pilasters and a raised center, with similar 8-light windows on both floors.

The rear range is single-storeyed, featuring a corbel table and cornice, coupled shaped gables, and large round-headed archways with banded surrounds—one serving as a doorway and the other modified into a window. The rear wall also includes windows in a similar style. Inside, the building has been altered to accommodate machinery for pumping water from two boreholes. This striking architectural structure reflects the Victorian emphasis on the historical importance of public water supplies and is part of a group with an associated lodge.