Broadmeads Pumping Station And Chimney is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 January 1974. Pumping station. 2 related planning applications.
Broadmeads Pumping Station And Chimney
- WRENN ID
- slow-railing-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 January 1974
- Type
- Pumping station
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
WARE TOWN
TL3513NW NEW RIVER 829-1/12/198 (North side) 04/01/74 Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney (Formerly Listed as: HERTFORD ROAD Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney)
II
Pumping station with adjoining house. Built 1881 by the New River Company. The main portion is a tall building of 2 storeys and attic. Yellow-brown stock brick, with vivid yellow dressings, rusticated quoins, Welsh slated roofs. 3 sash windows on first floor; 2 large round-headed windows on ground floor. Dentil eaves cornice, pedimented gables with circular windows, and gabled ends left and right. Adjoining to left small wing of lower elevation and L-shaped plan. 2 storeys, Welsh slated roof, yellow brick, 3 windows. Tall detached brick chimney to the right, battered profile, above square base with dentil cornice, with dentil cornice below set back top. At rear is single storey wing, yellow-brown brick with vivid yellow dressings, and Welsh slated roof. Arched semicircular windows, with glazing bars and stone cills, 2 in main elevation and one in east gable end. (The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton Abbot: 1970-: 100, 179).
Listing NGR: TL3531813975
Detailed Attributes
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