Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building)

Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building), Lichfield Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388365
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building)
Statutory Address:: Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building), Lichfield Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1388365
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building)
Statutory Address 1:: Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building), Lichfield Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building), Lichfield Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Curborough and Elmhurst
National Grid Reference:: SK 10457 13697

Details

SK 11 SW 1908/3/10010

CURBOROUGH AND ELMHURST LICHFIELD ROAD Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building)

II Waterworks pumping station. Dated 1938. Plum-coloured wire-cut brick in Flemish bond with some blue headers, and pink concrete dressings. Low-pitched hipped roof behind parapet.

PLAN: rectangular on plan engine house with offices and stairs behind in lower range. Neo-Georgian style.

EXTERIOR: tall single-storey and basement. Symmetrical three-bay north east front with large round-headed windows with small concrete keyblocks, and with oculi above, all with metal frames with small panes. Intricate brickwork detailing, including rustication to the window architraves and recessed quoins; central brick porch with moulded concrete architrave and entablature inscribed: 'Seedy Mill', approached by flight of steps with railings; main parapet recessed and with concrete coping and panel inscribed: South Staffordshire Waterworks Company. Tall plinth with small basement windows. The centres of the end elevations break forward and have similar windows. At rear south west a lower range with simpler detailing and also with metal frame windows.

INTERIOR: foyer has curved steps and concrete stairs with tubular steel balustrade; foyer and landing have original doors. Engine house has yellow brick and glazed brown and green brick walls, and braced steel roof trusses; the electric pumping engines are replacements of the original electric engines.

NOTE: The chief engineer when this pumping station was built was F.J. Dixon A.M.I.C.E.

Listing NGR: SK1045713697

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Legacy System number:: 476375
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.