Former East Farleigh Waterworks
FORMER EAST FARLEIGH WATERWORKS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263788
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former East Farleigh Waterworks
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER EAST FARLEIGH WATERWORKS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263788
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Former East Farleigh Waterworks
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER EAST FARLEIGH WATERWORKS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER EAST FARLEIGH WATERWORKS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barming
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 73455 53562
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Curl, JS, The Egyptian Revival, (1982)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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