Description

SU 8346 NW FARNHAM WEST STREET
4/400 No 50
II
Engineering works, later ambulance station. Late C19. Red brick in English bond with stock brick dressings and C20 pantiles. Gable front with stone and brick coping and kneelers. Gable has plaque with 'GEO ELLIOTT'. First floor has 2 circular windows and round-headed loading door opening with keystone. Large cambered opening with keystone and impost blocks to ground floor. 4 cambered metal casements to sides. Wooden double doors. Interior of 4 bays with plain boarding. Included for historical interest as a plaque recalls that 'John Henry Knight's car. one of Britain's earliest petrol driven vehicles was built here' by George Parfitt at the Elliott Reliance Works 1895'. This car is believed to be the first petrol driven vehicle on English roads and is now housed in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.

Listing NGR: SU8344446557

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26536367

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)