About the house

This is Carrington Pump House.   I will admit to blipping it before but it has been covered in hessian and scaffolding for the last few years while they have been doing renovations and all has been revealed now and you can walk in front of it.  Unfortunately, even with the 24 mm lens and stepping back as far as I could to the boundary fence I could not get the whole of it in a direct front view.   A partial is in the extra (which is a two image vertical pan).

Now let me tell you about the house.... this is what wiki says:

The Hydraulic Engine House, Carrington (also called Bullock Island), is a large building in face brick and stone, executed in the Victorian Academic Classical style with some Victorian Romanesque features. Located near Port Hunter, the building is composed of a three-bayed central engine room, balanced by two accumulator towers and flanked by boiler rooms. The main roof, supported by iron trusses is of Penrhyn slate. The entry is approached across a peristyle via steps flanked by massive angular stone plinths.  A heavily carved stone lion's head stands over the main entry, which is flanked by side bays with elongated arched windows, corbelled sills and prominent voussoirs and mullions, the latter featuring elaborate carvings of bunched roses, thistles and shamrocks, national flowers of three of the nationalities of the United Kingdom. The stone architrave is surmounted by a frieze featuring prominent modillions supporting a cast-iron cornice above which is a pediment with a simple tympanon. A substantial addition, known as the Auxiliary Engine House or Dynamo Room, stands at rear. Crane Bases Nos. 7, 8, 9 and 10 are square-shaped structures in mass concrete faced in red brick and capped with coping stones.


Now I didn't know what a voussoir and mullion and looked them up.   Suffice it to say they are architectural features. The things you learn when you blip.

It is now late (having ducked out for this blip, come back and just finished the unmentionable) and so I will leave comments until the unmentionable calms down (probably Friday).

Good news is that we have rain and it is pleasantly cool.   Relief is coming across the ditch my Kiwi blipmates.

Thanks for hosting Bob.