Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26562340

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)