Kingwood And Adjacent Pump

A house with adjacent pump, designed by Watson Fothergill for Mr Marshall and dated 1893, with the east side heightened in the early 20th century and extensions probably also executed by Fothergill. The building is constructed in red brick with blue brick and ashlar dressings, beneath a plain tile roof with sprocketed eaves and two red brick stacks.

The west front is set on a plinth with a central moulded band and chamfered blue brick band over. Flush blue brick bands mark the ground floor sill and first floor, with double bands to the top of both ground and first floor windows. The front is two storeys and four bays, dominated by a two-storey porch with a polygonal upper storey topped by a conical roof with a decorative ashlar finial. The porch contains a single ashlar cross casement, and to its right stands a single buttress with bands. The doorway is positioned in the right wall, with a projecting lean-to hood supported on decorative wooden brackets set upon ashlar corbels. The double door features decorative iron hinges and is surrounded by a flush ashlar quoin, with a depressed ogee arch and small orb finial. The left spandrel is inscribed "WF" and the right "1893". The upper storey of the porch is particularly distinctive: its three front-facing sides each contain a single large fixed light with lead glazing bars, transoms and mullions, arranged in stepped formation created by corresponding brickwork below. The three polygonal sides contain herringbone brickwork.

To the left of the porch is a doorway with plank door and flush wedge lintel, followed by a single sash with lead glazing bars to the top, flush wedge lintel and moulded brick dripstone. The remaining bays of the main front feature double sashes with flush wedge lintels and drip moulds.

Adjacent to the north wall stands a single wood, lead and iron water pump with an ashlar trough.

To the left is a narrow projecting bay without openings. Further left extends a three-storey plus attic, two-bay wing with a projecting porch beneath a hipped roof. The porch contains a doorway with plank door and overlight, with a single fixed light to the left. The first and second floors have single sashes with flush wedge lintels. The half-hipped, half-timbered attic features herringbone brick nogging and a single small glazing bar light.

To the left of this wing is a gabled two-storey, three-bay wing with plain bargeboard. A round archway leads to an inner doorway with plank door. To the left is a small pivotal casement and further left a doorway with plank door, both with flush wedge lintels and single brick drip mould over. Three slit ventilators sit above the left doorway, with a single sash with flush wedge lintel above these.

The garden or south front is two storeys and three bays. The left bay projects with a hipped roof and single iron ridge finial. A single canted bay stands under a sloping roof supported on four wooden brackets, featuring three sashes to the front with single transoms and lead glazing bars over, and a single sash to each side. To the right is a single small lead glazing bar sash with flush wedge lintel. Further right projects a larger bay containing three sashes to the front (the central sash wider than its flanking pair) and a single sash to the left wall with a doorway to the right. Each opening has a single transom with lead glazing bars over. Wooden piers flank this bay, with outer piers supporting a sloping roof that extends over the right two bays and is hipped at the right end. Rising above and from the canted bay roof is a smaller canted bay with matching roof treatment, supported on two brackets. This upper bay contains three sashes each with single transom and lead glazing bars. The bay below is half-timbered with herringbone brick nogging. To the right is a single pair of sashes with flush wedge lintels.

The east side rises to two and three storeys plus attic across four bays. The leftmost bay is two storeys and gabled. The next bay is three storeys and embattled. The third bay is three storeys plus attic, half-hipped. The rightmost bay is two storeys and gabled. A doorway with glazed double door and flush wedge lintel appears in the lowest section. To its right is a single tripartite window with the left side canted, supported by a wooden bracket on an ashlar corbel. This bracket supports the projecting first floor. Further right is a slightly projecting bay with a single tripartite cross casement, the left part being low and forming a doorway with flush wedge lintel over. The far right contains a single sash with similar lintel. Above are single tripartite and pair cross casements with lead glazing bars over the transoms. Further right are three double sashes. The second floor features a single tripartite sash and a single pair of sashes to the right. The half-timbered attic with brick nogging contains a single small glazing bar light. All windows have moulded surrounds, some with chamfered edges and broach stops, and most openings have flush wedge lintels.

The interior retains good contemporary fittings including decorative plaster ceilings, varied moulded cornices, skirtings and panelled doors. Fireplaces remain in place. The staircase is particularly noteworthy, featuring a single column with a foliate-decorated capital.