The Pump House Public House

The Pump House Public House is a hydraulic engine house converted into a public house, built around 1870 by Thomas Howard. It features squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a hipped pantile roof. The building is single storey and has a four-window range. The engine house and the left-hand square two-stage accumulator tower have distinct quoins, jambs, and voussoirs. The central block of the engine house has paired hipped roofs with ridge lights. To the right, there is a wide elliptical-arched carriage entrance, and to the left, a large semicircular-arched window, both with paired eaves brackets at the corners. The right-hand section is set back and includes a small semicircular-arched doorway on the right, with a narrow window above it. The tower features a semicircular-arched doorway and a narrow window above, along with brackets supporting the pyramidal roof topped with a wrought-iron weather vane. Additionally, there is a large cross arrow slit in the left return. The interior has been remodelled and converted for use as a public house. This building was originally designed by Howard, the Docks Engineer, to provide hydraulic power to the Cumberland Basin.