Description

GREAT AMWELL AMWELL LANE
TL 3712 (south side)

12/5 Amwell Marsh Cottage
to east side of Pumping
Station

GV II

House. 1883 as the Engineer's House for Amwell Marsh Pumping
Station of the New River Company. Yellow stock brick with
moulded brick dressings, red brick inset panels, moulded stone
lintels, stone sills and ogee shaped eaves brackets. Hipped red
tile roofs. A small 2 storeys 3-bay house facing N with a single
storey wing central at rear. Contemporary industrial design
vocabulary with symmetrical pilastered front, elaborate moulded
brick cornice at 1st Floor level, offset plinth, and projecting
brick porch occupying the lower half of the central bay. Round
headed doorway with fanlight, large stone keystone and moulded
brick drip mould to arch. Similar yellow brick round arches
to upper windows set in red brick panels - central one blind.
Square heads to lower windows with moulded stone lintels. 2-
light divided casements with top lights. Part of group with
pumping station to W.

Listing NGR: TL3762612325

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26346454

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