Pump House

ELTON MIDDLE STREET TL 0893 (South Side) 15/46 No. 5 (Pump House) GV II House. Mid C17, converted to three cottages in C19. Coursed limestone rubble and freestone dressings. Collyweston stone slated roofs. Ridge stack to left hand and end stack to right hand with paired brick shafts and stone cornices. C20 brick side stack to east. One storey and attics, main range with cross wing to east. Chamfered copings to parapet gables. Moulded cornice common to entrance with four-centred chamfered arch and C20 boarded door, and two flanking three-light ovolo mullioned casement windows, window to right hand c.1930, replacing door. Small windows with chamfered jambs to left and right hand. Dormer window with facade parapet gable and three-light window similar but smaller than ground floor windows. Gable to cross wing with two storey canted bay window with two windows each of three ovolo mullioned lights. Interior: Stop-chamfered ceiling beams and timber framed internal partition. Open hearth to west room with chamfered, cambered mantel beam and freestone jambs, centre room with moulded four-centred arched stone chimney piece partly restored and with moulded cornice, similar hearth in first floor room to west. C18 fitted corner cupboard. Older foundation stones project in north and east elevations.

R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p83 Clark, A. Photographic Collection

Listing NGR: TL0875593782