Pump house approximately 80 metres east of Scampston Hall and attached walls sunk in ground on south side. is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. Pump house.
Pump house approximately 80 metres east of Scampston Hall and attached walls sunk in ground on south side.
- WRENN ID
- idle-rampart-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- Pump house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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SE 87 NE 4/52
SCAMPSTON SCAMPSTON HALL ESTATE Pump house approximately 80 metres east of Scampston Hall and attached walls sunk in ground on south side.
GV II
Pump house. 1778 on datestone. Orange-red brick in English garden wall bond on tooled sandstone base; stone coping. Exterior wall of orange-red brick. Square on plan.
Battered east side has low segment-arched opening and blocked roundel above. South side has segment arch between shaped abutments over channel running through building. On west side is wide doorway beneath heavy lintel. Date panel sunk in raised surround on north side, hidden by ivy (at time of listing).
Interior: partly sunken floor forms wheel pit for undershot wheel. Massive tunnel-vaulted roof. Channel bringing water from the adjacent lake, together with a sluice, may be seen to south-east.
Water, collected in the small pond on south side was controlled by a sluice within the pumphouse, from where it was channelled through the building, flowing out through a tailrace on the north side. Included for industrial- historic interest.
Listing NGR: SE8656775570
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