Pumping House At Ncb Mines Drainage Unit

SK49NW RAWMARSH WESTFIELD ROAD (west side)

5/22 Pumping house at NCB Mines Drainage Unit

II

Pumping house now housing electrical apparatus. Dated 1823 although tower may be earlier, later additions. Coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Rectangular tower with lean-to and workshop buildings to right return. Roadside elevation: 2-storey tower and lean-to, single-storey workshop buildings. Extra storey to rear with fall of land. Tower: gabled entrance front has renewed glazed door in round- arched opening with date boldly inscribed, off-centre, on voussoirs. Continuous impost band. To 1st floor: iron casement with glazing bars within round-arched opening now partly obscured by brick and concrete gantry attached to front of building. Lean-to set back to right has a casement with glazing bars to each floor. Low workshop buildings to right preserve remains of 2 infilled round archways, the right arch truncated to right by a short gabled projection of later construction, 2-window section to far right also of later build. Rear: similar round- arched openings to tower, sills altered.

Interior: original pumping machinery removed. C20 workshop buildings attached to rear right not of special interest. Formed part of the Fitzwilliam mining enterprises in the area.

Listing NGR: SK4345895649