Main Pump House At Boughton Pumping Station And Adjoining Boiler House And Workshops

This is the main pump house at Boughton Pumping Station, along with an adjoining boiler house and workshops, built in 1905 and designed by W. B. Starr. The building is an example of Baroque Revival style, constructed from brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof.

The pump house has a chamfered plinth, ashlar bands, a string course, textured brick panels, a modillioned cornice, coped parapets, and gables. It is three storeys high plus a basement, with a square plan and a prominent octagonal rear wall stack. The eastern entrance front features a projecting central bay with double stair flights, coped parapet and square piers. The basement level has a central casement with a segmental head and keystone, above a central double door with a modillioned lintel and keystone overlight. Flanking the entrance are single casements with keystoned segmental heads, and scrollwork cartouches. The first floor has a central Diocletian window flanked by strapwork cartouches, with smaller Diocletian windows either side. The second floor has a double casement with balusters and pediment, flanked by recessed panels in the parapet. The south front has round-headed recessed bays at each end. One side has a two-storey opening with a segmental head, and below are four basement windows and four casements with segmental heads, all within recessed panels. Above these are three Diocletian windows, flanked by larger Diocletian windows with balusters. The parapet features blank panels and shaped gables with single, pedimented tripartite casements.

The workshop is a single-storey building with five bays. It has two central dormers with mullioned and transomed casements and shaped gables. The front has a door with overlight, flanked by casements of different sizes. To the right are a pair of carriage doors with a segmental head and overlight. The adjoining boiler house, to the west, is a two-storey building with a hipped clerestory roof and shaped gables including kneelers. A six-bay arcade on the west side has segmental heads, containing two doors. A lean-to building attached to the boiler house has a mullioned and transomed casement flanked by a door to the left and another door and a single casement to the right. Above this are six mullioned and transomed casements, repeated in the gables. A setback bay on the north side features a square chimney base with a moulded cornice.