Parkhill Pumping Station Tanks

Parkhill Pumping Station Tanks, dated 1898, is a pumping station featuring a two-storey and attic, three-bay pumping house built against a terraced earth bank. It has a lade carried on an aqueduct at the rear, and large T-plan water tanks to the southeast. The construction is primarily mass concrete, likely with some metal reinforcement in the aqueduct.

The pumping house is symmetrical with three bays. It has a moulded string course at the ground floor that steps around a central carved and dated crest. The window openings are shallow arched, and there is a central segmental-arched opening at the ground level that is now blocked, flanked by paired windows. The window to the right has been changed to an entrance, and there is evidence of a later single-storey pitched roof porch that has since been removed. The first floor features two windows and canted attic dormers. There are also a pair of entrances with boarded timber doors on the west gable at the first floor. The windows are predominantly timber sash and case. The roof is pitched, covered with grey slates, and has straight skews and coped stacks with octagonal clay cans.

The interior, partially seen in 2012, includes two turbine pumps on the ground floor, one of which is original.

The lade and aqueduct, located at the rear of the pumping house, feature two concrete arches supporting a bellied lade that is corbelled to the south. The aqueduct is positioned at a right angle to span the channelled earth bank to the north and has a vaulted base, along with a retaining wall to the bank.

The water tanks, also from around 1898, are large T-plan, flat-roofed concrete structures situated on falling ground to the southeast of the pumping house.