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Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney

A Grade II Listed Building in Ware, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.808 / 51°48'28"N

Longitude: -0.0386 / 0°2'19"W

OS Eastings: 535318

OS Northings: 213975

OS Grid: TL353139

Mapcode National: GBR KBL.P16

Mapcode Global: VHGPH.8TYB

Plus Code: 9C3XRX56+6G

Entry Name: Broadmeads Pumping Station and Chimney

Listing Date: 4 January 1974

Last Amended: 13 September 1995

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1275446

English Heritage Legacy ID: 412225

ID on this website: 101275446

Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, SG12

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

Civil Parish: Ware

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Ware Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description



WARE TOWN

TL3513NW NEW RIVER
829-1/12/198 (North side)
04/01/74 Broadmeads Pumping Station and
Chimney
(Formerly Listed as:
HERTFORD ROAD
Broadmeads Pumping Station and
Chimney)

II

Pumping station with adjoining house. Built 1881 by the New
River Company. The main portion is a tall building of 2
storeys and attic. Yellow-brown stock brick, with vivid yellow
dressings, rusticated quoins, Welsh slated roofs. 3 sash
windows on first floor; 2 large round-headed windows on ground
floor. Dentil eaves cornice, pedimented gables with circular
windows, and gabled ends left and right. Adjoining to left
small wing of lower elevation and L-shaped plan. 2 storeys,
Welsh slated roof, yellow brick, 3 windows. Tall detached
brick chimney to the right, battered profile, above square
base with dentil cornice, with dentil cornice below set back
top. At rear is single storey wing, yellow-brown brick with
vivid yellow dressings, and Welsh slated roof. Arched
semicircular windows, with glazing bars and stone cills, 2 in
main elevation and one in east gable end.
(The Industrial Archaeology of the British Isles: Branch
Johnson W: The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire: Newton
Abbot: 1970-: 100, 179).


Listing NGR: TL3531813975

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