Rye Common Pumping Station

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TL 3lNW 5/4

GREAT AMWELL St Margarets HODDESDON ROAD (east side) Rye Common Pumping Station

GV II Pumping Station. 1882, converted to electricity 1935 (HCC Sites and Monuments Record) for New River Company. Yellow brick with buff gauged arches and Portland stone brackets to hipped red tile roofs.

A dramatic design of three pavilions stepping down the embankment of the New River. Tallest at the top designed as the engine house has clasping corner pilasters with stone used for necking band and continuous torus string course below the wide eaves and giant curved stone brackets. On south front an arched single-storey cloister with entrances. Above, two large rectangular recesses each with two slender round headed window with small panes in cast iron frames. On narrower east and west sides a tall arched recess has similar windows. Lower middle pavilion on north side has similar giant eaves brackets, a rectangular recessed panel on east with two square headed windows. Along road frontage a low projecting ornamental building with stone parapet and central gable with circular window. On north a lower pavilion with hipped red roof and three arched openings on east the central one a door with radial fanlight. Narrow single-bay building attached on north with large glazed lantern over hipped roof. Single arched window on east.

Listing NGR: TL3795011137