Waterworks
WATERWORKS, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272507
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Waterworks
- Statutory Address:
- WATERWORKS, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/07292/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1272507
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Waterworks
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERWORKS, HIGH STREET
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:
- WATERWORKS, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54677 46312
Details
1. LEIGH LEIGH
5280 High Street (South East Side) TQ 54 NW SP/113 Waterworks 19/113 II
2. Waterworks 1870s; for Samuel Morley and probably by George Devey (1820-86). Red brick and gault brick walls. Plain tile roofs. T-shaped complex comprising two octagonal buildings with octagonal cupolas and a single storey rectangular wing on SE with lower, hipped roofed cross-wing. Smaller, SW octagonal building connected by link wing with door in brick segmental arch to rectangular wing, its south gable with cusped barge-board, two two-light windows with margin lights and octagonal panes and a bulls-eye window in the gable. The stump of the pumping engine chimney remains in the angle with the lower and hipped SE cross-wing. The smaller, octagonal building on SW contains the well, with total depth of 103 feet, and with a diameter of 12 feet for the first 36 feet. The longer octagonal building formerly contained a softening and filter house. A direct acting steam pump pumped water into the reservoir at Hall Place, into another reservoir for the village and into the tanks at Home Farm.
Listing NGR: TQ5467746312
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 449041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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