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Latitude: 52.7208 / 52°43'14"N
Longitude: -1.8466 / 1°50'47"W
OS Eastings: 410457
OS Northings: 313697
OS Grid: SK104136
Mapcode National: GBR 3BX.FYQ
Mapcode Global: WHCGG.LWW0
Plus Code: 9C4WP5C3+89
Entry Name: Seedy Mill Waterworks Pumping Station (North Building)
Listing Date: 6 August 1999
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1388365
English Heritage Legacy ID: 476375
ID on this website: 101388365
Location: Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13
County: Staffordshire
District: Lichfield
Civil Parish: Curborough and Elmhurst
Traditional County: Staffordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Staffordshire
Church of England Parish: Lichfield St Chad
Church of England Diocese: Lichfield
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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