Goldthorn Hill pumping station

Goldthorn Hill pumping station is a disused water pumping station built around 1851 by H J Marten, with contributions from Thomas Hawksley, for the Wolverhampton Waterworks Company. The construction was carried out by Jones and Treasure of London.

The building is made of red brick with limestone ashlar dressings and features slate-clad roofs that are hipped over the boiler house and coal shed. The layout is rectangular, consisting of a double-height engine house with an attached boiler house and coal shed to the east, and a square base of a chimney beyond.

The engine house is designed in the Italianate style and is a double-height structure with one storey. The front facing the road has one bay, while the west and east elevations each have two bays. These bays are highlighted by clasping brick pilasters with moulded stone capitals that extend to a cornice and a later brick parapet with stone coping. The south-facing entrance bay features a tall, round-headed, moulded, blind arch with a pair of double doors that are boarded over, situated beneath a bracketed cornice. Above this, there is a round-arched window with metal-glazing bars. Below the cornice, there are triple intersecting oculi with moulded stone surrounds. The side elevations match this style, with tall windows in arches and intersecting oculi above. The four-bay boiler house has plain brick pilasters and round-arched windows, while the brick chimney, which has a square section, has been truncated.

The interior was not inspected in 2014, but it is noted that the engine, beam floor, and entablature have been removed from the engine house, along with the boilers from the adjacent boiler house.

Additionally, there is a surviving section of ramped boundary wall made of red brick with a capping of blue bricks, along with a single square brick gate pier at the roadside frontage of the site.