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PODE HOLE PUMPING STATION

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Pumping station for fen drainage. Built in 1825. Disused by 1925.

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(TF 21512120) Ppg Sta (NAT). (1)

PARISH OF PINCHBECK
BOURNE ROAD

22/1 GD II Building incorporating former Boiler House at
Pode Hole Pumping Station

The former boiler house, circa 1825 brick building with low
pitched hipped slate roof with wide eaves. It is a single
storey shed with two large arched openings at the front,
now blocked and with metal frame windows inserted in one
and double doors in the other.

Modern brick addition adjoining to right with a rainwater head
dated 1825. Late C19 or early C20 addition on left hand side
with large painted board with bye-laws of "Deeping Fen Spalding
and Pinchbeck Drainage Board" dated 1876. In front of this a
keystone, dated 1806 incorporated into what appears to be a
mounting block with inscription "Sharps Bridge Keystone". (2)

TF 213220. Pode Hole Pumping Station.
The engines were installed in 1825 and it was at one time the
largest steam installation in the fens. They ceased operating in
1925 and were scrapped in 1952. The drainage board are
establishing a museum in the building. (3)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) General reference

OS 1:10000 1982

( 2) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DOE(HHR) Prov List South Holland Dist Lincs Aug 1978

( 3) General reference

A guide to the Ind Arch of Lincs 1983 27 (AIA & Soc for Lincs Hist & Arch)

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