Westonzoyland Engine Trust Old Pumping Station at NGR ST3396232827 is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Pumping station. 1 related planning application.
Westonzoyland Engine Trust Old Pumping Station at NGR ST3396232827
- WRENN ID
- burning-ledge-martin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Bridgwater MP: Sir Ashley Fox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Pumping station
- Address
- Westonzoyland Engine Trust Old Pumping Station at NGR ST3396232827, Hoopers Drove, TA7 0LS
- OS grid reference
- ST 339 328
- Coordinates
- 51.09093, -2.94433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Westonzoyland Engine Trust Old Pumping Station, now preserved by the Westonzoyland Engine Trust, is a former pumping station dating from the early 19th century. It features Flemish bond brick construction with a hipped slate roof that has wide eaves, along with double-Roman and pantiled roofs, brick stacks, and a brick chimney. The engine house is square in plan and two storeys high, with an additional two-storey range attached to the south, a single-storey outshut to the east, and a collection of single-storey outbuildings. A tall, plain tapering chimney, square in plan, abuts the engine house.
The engine house has a segmental-pointed opening facing the river, equipped with an iron shutter, and above it is a three-light casement window with glazing bars. The remaining windows on other sides are boarded over, and the door openings have plank doors.
Inside, there is an Appold steam engine and pump, built by Easton and Amos of Southwark in 1861, which was used to raise water from the adjacent levels into the River Parrett. The impeller pump is suspended above the bottom of a well and is driven by bevel gears from the engine that is also suspended over the well.
The adjacent 20th-century pumping station is not of special interest.
Local climate
Westonzoyland Engine Trust Old Pumping Station at NGR ST3396232827 receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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