NHER 16716 (Monument record) - Site of Haddiscoe steam pumping station

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Summary

This is the site of a 19th century pumping station. It was a brick and timber framed building that housed a steam pump; it has been demolished and replaced with a modern building.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TM49NE
Civil Parish HADDISCOE, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pumping Station.
Brick building across dyke with well underneath. Timber framed weatherboarded upper storey. About 1850.
Firebox replaced in either 1878 or 1898 (date not clear). Now houses modern diesel pump. Chimney gone.
Information from (S1).
E. Rose (NAU), 3 November 1980.

Apparently demolished and replaced by brick pumphouse.
E. Rose (NAU), 28 April 1982.

(S2) states it was built in 1865; the date on the boiler is 1898; the house has been demolished but the engine is at Strumpshaw Steam Museum.
E. Rose (NLA), 31 May 2000.

The engine was subsequently moved to a museum in Fleggburgh but is now no longer in Norfolk.
A. Yardy (HES), 04 February 2012.

  • --- Fiche: Exists.
  • --- Photograph: Ashley, H.. 1971. Six photographic prints of Haddiscoe Pumping Station. Print, b&w.
  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • <S1> Archive: NIAS. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Records.
  • <S2> Article in Serial: Wood, A.. 1999. A Steam Drifting Over the Reeds.. NIAS Journal. Vol 6, No 4. p 19.

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Record last edited

Jul 23 2013 12:02PM

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