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

• Wikidata Q26626246

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)