The Pump House Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1972. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Pump House Public House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-ashlar-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bristol, City of
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1972
- Type
- Public house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BRISTOL
ST5772 CUMBERLAND BASIN, Floating Harbour 901-1/41/1287 (North side) 18/02/72 The Pump House Public House (Formerly Listed as: CUMBERLAND BASIN Hydraulic Engine House)
II
Hydraulic engine house, now public house. c1870. By Thomas Howard. Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a pantile hipped roof. Single storey; 4-window range. Engine house and left-hand square 2-stage acccumulator tower have pronounced quoins, jambs and voussoirs. The engine house has a central block with paired hipped roofs with ridge lights, a wide elliptical-arched carriage entrance to the right, and large semicircular-arched window to the left, with paired eaves brackets at the corners; right-hand section set back has a small semicircular-arched doorway to the right, with a narrow window above. The tower has a semicircular-arched doorway, and narrow window above, and brackets to the pyramidal roof with a wrought-iron weather vane; in the left return is a large cross arrow slit. INTERIOR: remodelled and converted to a public house. Designed by Howard, the Docks Engineer, to provide hydraulic power to the Cumberland Basin. (Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-: 62).
Listing NGR: ST5715072331
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