Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park

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WEST BRETTON PARK ROAD (south side, off) Overflow to Lower Lake, three weirs to east side of dam and pump house adjacent to middle weir, in Bretton Park.

GV II

Overflow, weirs and pumphouse. The overflow and weirs probably c.1782 (date of Lower Lake), the pump house probably early C19. The overflow and weirs are lined in coursed squared stone with slight tooling or vermiculation. The pump house is of coursed square rubble with quoins and has a stone slate roof. The top weir forms the east end of The Cut which flows eastward to the north of the lakes. The overflow runs through a tunnel-vaulted skew-bridge to join the second weir in a 90x curve. The third weir is shallower. All the weirs are stepped and concave and the upper two weirs each have a drop of approximately 5 metres.

The pump house has an internal brick wall which farms a wheel-housing containing an iron-spoked water wheel of approximately 2 metres (6 feet) in diameter. The other chamber contains a crankshaft with two connecting rods to a pump. The goit driving the wheel appears to have been blocked. The pump is said to have been used to pump drinking water from a lower level up to the main house approximately 700 metres away.

Listing NGR: SE2900812531