Hunter Water S170 Register

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1 SHI No.: Location Name: Anderson Dr, Tarro NSW 2322 Other ID nos HW ID: 53. Other ID: WSTAR067. Description: Tarro Pumping Station, Main Building: Large, purpose-built water pumping station in the Federation style. Brick built in Flemish bond with black tuck pointing, now faded. Painted render and concrete details. Marseille tiled roof, parapeted and hipped, with two timber louver vent stacks and extended eaves supported on steel brackets. Ornate dormer with cast detail. Colorbond downpipe and guttering. Entrance door is a panelled timber door with glazed overlight. There are mostly replacement timber windows, some glazed and some broken, as well as some original windows. Internally virtually all equipment has been removed and the space is largely used for storage. Tarro Pumping Station, Valve House: In the same style as the main building. Flemish bond brick building with Marseille tiled hipped and sprocketed roof and slatted vented soffit and moulded rendered concrete detailing. Sheeted door within the original frame. Significance: The Tarro Pumping Station is an exceptionally finely detailed early 20th century water pumping station, which superseded the pumping station at the Walka Water Works near Maitland. The Pumping Station is constructed in the Federation Free Style and is the most finely constructed building remaining within the Hunter Water network. It includes a matching boundary fence and valve house. As a purpose-built industrial building it is a rare example of public architecture, built at a time when the ornamentation of infrastructure was part of the civic pride in its development. Now decommissioned, the building lacks most internal elements or machinery. Assessed Significance: State Endorsed Significance: State Historical Notes: Constructed: The staff of the Hunter District Water Board designed the Tarro Pumping Station building, with construction commencing in the year The building was designed to be of sufficient size to house the plant required for the boosting of the Chichester main as it existed at the time, as well as providing for any future amplifications thereof. As such, the plant first installed in the building only occupied a portion of the available space. The Annual Report for the year noted that the installation of the pumps and motors, supplied by Messrs. Thompsons of Castlemaine in Victoria, as well as the connection of various pipes, was being carried out. It was also recounted in this report that as the building was in a conspicuous position, and was to be a permanent construction, the Board had decided that a substantial building of "good architectural appearance" should be erected. Whilst construction was officially completed on 7th March 1930, the pumping plant was installed and ready for operation on 11th October 1929, and used over the summer of to assist in the deliverance of water to Buttai Reservoir during periods of high consumption. The completion of the Tarro Pumping Station saw the Walka Waterworks superseded, as Chichester Dam replaced the Hunter River in supplying the district with water. The Tarro Pumping Station plant consisted of seven electrically-driven centrifugal pumping units, housed in a wellventilated brick building. Pumping units nos. 1, 2 and 3 were designed to pump water from the Chichester Gravitation Main via Stoney Pinch to Buttai, Newcastle and other service reservoirs, whilst nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 were to act as boosting pumps to increase the delivery of water from Chichester Dam to the Waratah Reservoirs. It was not until however, that the pumps that boosted the delivery of water to the Waratah Reservoirs were started up for the first time, when gravitational flow could no longer satisfactorily maintain the reservoirs. Designer/Builder: Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board Current Use: Decommissioned Former Uses: Water pumping station Physical Condition: Tarro Pumping Station, Main Building: Good overall condition. Rust jack to main entrance window lintel and some slipped tiles on the roof. Further Information: Printed 10/09/ Page 1 of 8

2 Situated in a group on a grassed town lot, with a decorative brick boundary wall which has wrought steel infills and lamp standards. Recommended Management: - This item is important to the heritage of NSW and must be conserved. - A Conservation Management Plan should be prepared for this item to facilitate appropriate long-term management. - Original details must be maintained including doors, windows and original signage. - New materials should be sympathetic to the nature and character of the original building. - In the event of major proposed changes prepare a Statement of Heritage Impact and undertake an archival recording. - Assess proposed changes against the Standard Exemptions for Works Requiring Heritage Council Approval and, if necessary, seek approval under the Heritage Act. - Wherever possible, changes should be restricted to the interior of the building and be designed to minimise impact to significant fabric. - Routine maintenance of existing fabric is essential. Specific Recommendations: 1 Statutory Instrument Nominate for State Heritage Register (SHR) 2 Recommended Mana Produce a Conservation Management Plan (CMP) References: Clem Lloyd, Patrick Troy and Shelley Schreiner 1992, For the Public Health. The Hunter District Water Board Publisher: Longman Cheshire Pty Ltd, Melbourne. Department of Public Works, Annual Reports, 1888 to 1892 and to Glennie Jones 1967, The Movement for Newcastle s First Water Supply , Newcastle History Monographs No. 2. Publisher: The Council of the City of Newcastle, Newcastle. Hunter District Water Board, Annual Reports, to Hunter District Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Annual Reports, to Hunter Water Board, Annual Reports, to Hunter Water Corporation, Annual Reports, to John W Armstrong 1967, Pipelines and People. The History of the Hunter District Water Board Newcastle, New South Wales. Publisher: The Hunter District Water Board, Newcastle. Mal Hindley 1983, From Weirs, Dams and Sand, in Shaping the Hunter. Publisher: The Newcastle Division of the Institute of Engineers Australia, Newcastle. Studies: , 'Hunter Water Conservation and Heritage Register Study'. Reference:. Listings: 1 Heritage Act - Under consideration for SHR/IHO listing: Listing date:. Reference Number: 2 Heritage Act - s.170 NSW State agency heritage register: Listing date:. Reference Number: 3 Local Environmental Plan: Substation Listing date: 8/08/2003. Reference Number: 4 Local Environmental Plan: Pumping Station Listing date: 8/08/2003. Reference Number: Data Entry: Date First Entered: 26/Apr/2010 Date Updated: 10/Sep/2010 Status: Partial Printed 10/09/ Page 2 of 8

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