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© Mrs Joy Roddy LRPS
IoE Number:
379474
Location:
THE PUMP HOUSE PUBLIC HOUSE, CUMBERLAND BASIN (north side)
BRISTOL, BRISTOL, BRISTOL
Photographer:
Mrs Joy Roddy LRPS
Date Photographed:
15 August 1999
Date listed:
18 February 1972
Date of last amendment:
30 December 1994
Grade
II
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BRISTOL
ST5772 CUMBERLAND BASIN, Floating Harbour
901-1/41/1287 (North side)
18/02/72 The Pump House Public House
(Formerly Listed as:
CUMBERLAND BASIN
Hydraulic Engine House)
II
Hydraulic engine house, now public house. c1870. By Thomas
Howard. Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and a
pantile hipped roof. Single storey; 4-window range. Engine
house and left-hand square 2-stage acccumulator tower have
pronounced quoins, jambs and voussoirs. The engine house has a
central block with paired hipped roofs with ridge lights, a
wide elliptical-arched carriage entrance to the right, and
large semicircular-arched window to the left, with paired
eaves brackets at the corners; right-hand section set back has
a small semicircular-arched doorway to the right, with a
narrow window above. The tower has a semicircular-arched
doorway, and narrow window above, and brackets to the
pyramidal roof with a wrought-iron weather vane; in the left
return is a large cross arrow slit. INTERIOR: remodelled and
converted to a public house. Designed by Howard, the Docks
Engineer, to provide hydraulic power to the Cumberland Basin.
(Lord J and Southam J: The Floating Harbour: Bristol: 1983-:
62).