Pump House Pub & Junction Lock One Street #5

The Victorian Pump House is now a Pub with a fine location on the Hotwells/north side of the swing bridge at Junction Lock across which you find #1 #2 and the Nova Scotia Pub #3 (see map).

This grade 11 listed building was built around 1870 by Thomas Howard as a Hydraulic Pumping House to provide power to the bridges, lock gates and machines of Bristol Harbour/Docks. It was replaced by a Hydraulic engine house in the 1880's and last year by two hideous, totally awful, corrugated iron structures, one of which you can see part of on the left.

The outside seating is very popular in the warm weather but inside there are some comfy sofas. Upstairs is the mezzanine restaurant with wood floor, exposed brickwork and plaster walls, a glass atrium in the roof and views down into the bar area.

It used to be a Goth hang-out but has been transformed into a Gastro Pub and this year won the 'Bristol's Best Restaurant' in the Good Food Awards.