Description

GREAT AMWELL AMWELL LANE
TL 3712 (south side)

12/4 Amwell Marsh Pumping
Station
GV
II

Pumping Station building. 1883 for the New River Company, erected
by Frederick Hitch of Ware. Yellow stock brick with portland
stone dressings, red brick inset panels and hipped red tile
roofs. A tall rectangular engine house raised on a high base
with outside stair at rear (S). Elaborate arcaded treatment with
recessed panels of red brick. Portland stone used for moulded
necking, imposts, dripmould, corbelled window sills and large
brackets to wide eaves. 3-bay E-face has round arched windows in
the outer bays at 2 levels with cast iron frames. 2-bay S front
and N front to road similar. Low single storey L-shaped range
attached on W has same elaborate treatment and arcading.
Originally steam driven and said to have had a beam-engine.
Forms a group with the Engineers House beside The New River.
(Branch Johnson (1970) 100: Pevsner (1977) 150).

Listing NGR: TL3760812339

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26626248

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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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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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (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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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)