The Old Hetling Court Pump Room is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1950. Pump room.
The Old Hetling Court Pump Room
- WRENN ID
- frozen-bronze-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1950
- Type
- Pump room
- Address
- The Old Hetling Court Pump Room, 1
- OS grid reference
- ST 749 646
- Coordinates
- 51.38049, -2.36151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Hetling Court Pump Room, originally known as No.5 Hot Bath Street and Hetling Court, is a former pump room now used as offices. It was built in 1804, possibly in 1792, by John Palmer. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and has a slate roof. It has a compact square shape and backs onto Abbey Church House, projecting forward with a former entrance from Hetling Court that is now blocked.
The exterior features three floors, with the main elevation facing Old Hot Bath. This elevation has three bays, with twelve-pane sash windows set in plain reveals on the upper two floors. The second floor has a blind centre light, while the ground floor showcases three large arched openings with twelve-pane sash windows and radial bars, all in sunk surrounds and with a moulded impost band. A rusticated plinth rises to the sills of the ground floor windows, and a moulded string course runs above the ground and first floors, the latter framed by narrow full-height quoin pilasters that culminate in a simple capital beneath the main cornice, which features a blocking course and parapet. A painted band above the ground floor still shows the words "HETLING PUMP ROOM."
To the left, there is an entrance in the adjoining property. The return elevation facing Hetling Court has four bays, with the first bay being blind, and features sash windows in architraves, with twelve-pane windows on the first and second floors and a fifteen-pane window on the ground floor. A deep portico on four unfluted Doric columns with two responds supports a flat entablature above a doorway that has a bolection mould surround and sidelights, which are all blocked. A steel external fire stair rises above the portico. The bands and cornice continue from the main front, and to the right, there is a large ashlar chimney stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Hetling Court Pump Room receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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