Former Foreman's Lodge and Workshop at Clevedon Pumping Station

Former foreman’s lodge and workshop, dated 1901. Designed by architect Henry Dare Bryan in a Domestic Revival style for the Clevedon Waterworks Company.

MATERIALS: constructed of squared and coursed Pennant rubble stone to the ground floor with clay wall tiles to the attic storey. It has rubble stone chimney stacks with red brick chimney shafts, and a plain clay tile cross-gabled roof. There are double-chamfered, stone mullion casement windows to the ground floor and the timber mullion casement windows to the first floor, all with square leaded lights.

PLAN: roughly T-shaped plan.

EXTERIOR: a two-storey house. Its principal elevation (east) has an irregular façade, with an off-centre gable with overhanging eaves. To the ground floor is a four-light window and to the first floor is a six-light bay window. To the apex is a pendant with a heart-shaped motif which is repeated to each gable. To the left, set beneath a catslide roof with a flat-roofed dormer window, is a timber and glazed porch with decorative carving to the spandrels and an ashlar date stone with the inscription AD 1901. The inscription includes a heart motif. There is a projecting central gable to the north elevation with cusped timber panelling and above, to the ridge line, is a rubble stone axial stack with four brick shafts set on a diagonal. The projecting gable to the rear elevation (west) has a blocked doorway to the ground floor and to the right is an external stone chimney stack with two brick shafts set on a diagonal. The gable-ended south elevation has a ground-floor bay window with dentils beneath the moulded cornice, and a three-light window above.

INTERIOR: within the porch, is a plank entrance door with spear-headed iron hinges and brass doorbell, set within a moulded, basket arch-headed doorway with decorative carving to the spandrels. The timber staircase has a tapered newel post with moulded bowl-shaped capitals and stick balusters. On the pendant of the staircase is the heart motif. The principal reception room has a marble fire surround with decorative ball detailing and a cast-iron grate. To the window is a fitted timber pelmet. There is a fitted dresser in the dining room. Upstairs, the three bedrooms retain cast-iron fireplaces. Throughout the interior are three-panelled doors with brass door furniture, moulded architrave, cornices and decorative iron window latches.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to the rear of the house is a single-storey, two-room workshop, with a gableted roof. It has two plank doors and a ten-light window which has been reduced in height.