Former East Farleigh Waterworks
- Date:
- 10 Sep 2001
- Location:
- Former East Farleigh Waterworks, Barming, Maidstone, Kent
- Reference:
- IOE01/04236/26
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
FARLEIGH BRIDGE TQ 75 SW BARMING 2/7 Former East Farleigh Waterworks GV II Waterworks, now coachworks and joinery. 1860, by James Pilbrow, in an Egyptian style. Gault brick in English bond. Rectangular. 2 storeys.
Coursed stone plinth towards river to south. Battered clasping buttress to each corner, and 2 set close together towards centre of each long side, all running into deep brick plat band under eaves. Rendered coved cornice with deep roll to base and chamfer to top. Low rendered parapet. Truncated projecting brick stack, formerly tall and tapering, filling most of east gable end, with cornice carried round it and bearing the initial "P".
Irregular fenestration to south of one small first-floor casement almost filling the narrow central bay and one broad 10- pane window with thin glazing bars to each outer bay of ground floor, all with rendered architraves and deep rendered coved and splayed cornices. 2 inserted 3-light wooden casements. Similar first-floor window to north. First-floor door to left gable end. Single-storey section in a similar style adjoining north-west corner. 2 doorways with rendered coved and splayed cornices flanking base of stack to east. Interior not inspected. (J.S. Curl, The Egyptian Revival, 1982).
Listing NGR: TQ7188154503
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1585 IOE Records taken by Patricia Philpott; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Miss Patricia Philpott. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Philpott, Patricia
Rights Holder: Philpott, Patricia
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