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The Pump House Public House

A Grade II Listed Building in Bristol, City of Bristol

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4483 / 51°26'54"N

Longitude: -2.618 / 2°37'4"W

OS Eastings: 357150

OS Northings: 172331

OS Grid: ST571723

Mapcode National: GBR C2M.XN

Mapcode Global: VH88M.KVTL

Plus Code: 9C3VC9XJ+8R

Entry Name: The Pump House Public House

Listing Date: 18 February 1972

Last Amended: 30 December 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279539

English Heritage Legacy ID: 379474

ID on this website: 101279539

Location: Hotwells, Bristol, BS8

County: City of Bristol

Electoral Ward/Division: Hotwells and Harbourside

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Bristol

Traditional County: Gloucestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Bristol

Church of England Parish: Clifton Holy Trinity with St Andrew the Less and St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



BRISTOL

ST5772 CUMBERLAND BASIN, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1287 (North side)
18/02/72 The Pump House Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND BASIN
Hydraulic Engine House)

II

Hydraulic engine house, now public house. c1870. By Thomas
Howard. Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a
pantile hipped roof. Single storey; 4-window range. Engine
house and left-hand square 2-stage acccumulator tower have
pronounced quoins, jambs and voussoirs. The engine house has a
central block with paired hipped roofs with ridge lights, a
wide elliptical-arched carriage entrance to the right, and
large semicircular-arched window to the left, with paired
eaves brackets at the corners; right-hand section set back has
a small semicircular-arched doorway to the right, with a
narrow window above. The tower has a semicircular-arched
doorway, and narrow window above, and brackets to the
pyramidal roof with a wrought-iron weather vane; in the left
return is a large cross arrow slit. INTERIOR: remodelled and
converted to a public house. Designed by Howard, the Docks
Engineer, to provide hydraulic power to the Cumberland Basin.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
62).


Listing NGR: ST5715072331

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