Description

1870s. Circular- plan; low dwarf wall with large conical half-slated roof; to N side, projecting doorway with slated cheeks, piended roof and timber-boarded door. Slaistered red sandstone rubble dwarf wall. Half-slated roof; graded slates; lead ball finial; several modern plastic ventilator units.

Statement of Interest

Listed a good example of an unusual form of smaller water works / pumping station.

The pumping station stands over a covered reservoir which is fed by local sources, including a spring at Meikle Tullo and a hill burn from Cowiehill. The water was collected in the covered reservoir and then pumped into a pipe which ran down into Edzell. The construction of the reservoir and pumping station was stimulated by the Public Health (Scotland) Act of 1867. Under the act, it was competent for 10 petitioners to require the local authority to provide an adequate water supply and drainage services. The Third Statistical Account states that it was the requirements of the act that led the parish council to establish a water supply for the village of Edzell in the 1870s. Both the 2nd and 3rd edition OS maps call the pumping station the 'Edzell Water Works (County Council)'.

The reservoir continued to be the main source of water for Edzell until the 1950s, when greatly increased consumption caused the water to be taken from the regional water scheme supplied by Loch Lee in Glen Esk.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17775037

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)