Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26554554

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]