Pump House at Norris Castle

The Pump House at Norris Castle is an early 19th-century structure built for Lord Henry Seymour. It is made of coursed rubble with a red-brick water tank and has slate roof coverings.

This rectangular, single-storey building features a hipped slate roof and measures six bays long and one bay wide, oriented from north-west to south-east. The main façade, facing south-west, includes two bays of eight-over-eight sash windows, a square-headed carriage entrance with timber-boarded double doors that have strap hinges, and two additional sash windows. An extension, added before 1845, is located at the south-east end, set back from the main elevation and featuring a timber-boarded door. At the rear, there is a red-brick water tank resting on a squared-stone plinth. The north-west, north-east, and south-east elevations are blind, lacking any openings.

Inside, the main section of the building has been used as a coach house and is topped with a king-post roof that has wrought-iron straps and dragon ties. It also contains a well set into a flagstone floor and features a blocked doorway in the south-east wall. The single bay extension houses two hand pumps: a mid-19th-century cast-iron hand pump marked ‘J. TYLOR & SONS LONDON’ mounted on a wooden plank on the north-west wall, and a late 19th-century double cylinder hand pump marked ‘CLEMENTS JEAKES & CO. 51 GT. RUSSELL ST. LONDON’.