Minor Pump House At Boughton Pumping Station

This is a minor pump house, built in 1905 as part of the Boughton Pumping Station, designed by W. B. Starr. It is constructed from brick and rockfaced stone, with ashlar dressings and Westmorland slate roofs. The design is in a Renaissance Revival style.

The pump house is arranged over three storeys and six unequal bays, forming an L-plan. It features a moulded plinth, two sill bands, a modillioned cornice, and dentillated eaves, with coped gables incorporating kneelers and obelisk finials. Most of the windows are glazing bar casements of varying shapes, each with a keystoned head.

A prominent feature is the two-storey central bay on the south gable with steps leading to a portico, which has Tuscan columns, a foliate soffit, and a semi-circular head. There is a pair of round-headed panelled doors in this bay. To the right is a single-storey range with a blind arcade on the ground floor, above which is a casement with a segmental head. Further along is a gable with a round-moulded window. The west side features a projecting central three-storey filter house, with a variety of casement and Diocletian windows, culminating in an octagonal cupola with squat columns and a copper ogee dome. The north gable has a pair of recessed half-glazed doors surmounted by a Diocletian window. Above this is a mullioned tripartite casement supported by squat shafts and a moulded entablature.

The east side includes a projecting gabled single-storey range with hipped clerestory roofs. The interior features a strutted king post roof and a glazed brick finish throughout.