Description

GREAT AMWELL AMWELL HILL
TL 3612 (east side)

11/5 Amwell Hill Pumping Station

24. 7. 75
(formerly listed under
Pepper Hill)

II

Pumping Station of 1849 by William Chadwell Mylne (1781-1863) as
Engineer to the New River Company. A tall classical building of
one high storey facing W. Boiler house in lean-to at rear a
little later. Fine yellow stock brick with buff brick gauged
arches to arcading on front and sides and to square headed
windows. Low pitched slate roof, hipped at front and concealed
by a bold stucco cornice with blocking course higher in the
middle. Eaves overhang at sides. Raking gable parapet at rear
with fat, square chimney, tapering above a projecting band which
continues round the building below the eves. Front has triple
arcade with plinth and imposts and a recessed sash window with
6/6 panes in each bay - centre one blocked. Small door, and
window with slender cast iron bars, in outer bays of S side each
with square heads under segmental triple arcade. Taller central
round-arched opening on N side with upper part glazed with radial
bars, flanked by sash windows in side bays. Large opening
presumably lit the steam engine and facilitated its building
(converted to electricity in 1944). The earliest extant pumping
station in Hertfordshire: built to pump into the New River
(Branch Johnson (1970) 100: Pevsner (1977) 150).

Listing NGR: TL3677912783

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626246

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)