Wingham Waterworks
WINGHAM WATERWORKS, ADISHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363294
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wingham Waterworks
- Statutory Address:
- WINGHAM WATERWORKS, ADISHAM ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363294
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wingham Waterworks
- Statutory Address 1:
- WINGHAM WATERWORKS, ADISHAM ROAD
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:
- WINGHAM WATERWORKS, ADISHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 24306 55332
Details
TR 25 NW WINGHAM ADISHAM ROAD
(east side) 4/271 Wingham Waterworks
II
Waterworks. Built 1903-5 for Margate Corporation. Red brick and slate roof, with rendered and stone dressings. Free Baroque and Art Nouveau style. Main block: large single storey machine hall with plinth, stringcourses, cornice and parapet with central ball finial. Central projectiom with segmental pediment and vase finial. Two large mullioned and transomed windows with gauged and keyed elliptical heads, and central double half glazed doors in keyed and moulded semi-circular surround, with lunette over and between them a scrolled pediment inscribed Margate Water Works. Single storey block to left with 2 segmentally headed and keyed wooden casements. Secondary block: to right of centre, with keyed and scrolled lunette over large cart doors, with either side a T-shaped window with segmental flying cornices. Similar single storey wing at end right to that at end left. The whole has fine quality brick and stonework and detailing, and all the fenestration exhibits Art Nouveau stained or painted glass, mostly abstract, but with landscapes in main block.Machinery removed, now containing electrical pumps. (See Bygone Kent, vol 6, no.3)
Listing NGR: TR2416155819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178303
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bygone Kent in Bygone Kent, Vol. 6, ()
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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