Amwell Marsh Cottage To East Side Of Pumping Station

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