Rye Common Pumping Station

Rye Common Pumping Station is a pumping station built in 1882 and converted to electricity in 1935 for the New River Company. It features yellow brick construction with buff gauged arches and Portland stone brackets supporting hipped red tile roofs.

The design includes three pavilions that step down the embankment of the New River. The tallest pavilion, serving as the engine house, has clasping corner pilasters, a necking band of stone, and a continuous torus string course beneath wide eaves with giant curved stone brackets. The south front has an arched single-storey cloister with entrances, and above it are two large rectangular recesses, each containing two slender round-headed windows with small panes in cast iron frames. The narrower east and west sides feature tall arched recesses with similar windows.

The lower middle pavilion on the north side has giant eaves brackets and a rectangular recessed panel on the east with two square-headed windows. Along the road frontage, there is a low projecting ornamental building with a stone parapet and a central gable featuring a circular window. To the north, a lower pavilion has a hipped red roof and three arched openings on the east side, with the central opening being a door with a radial fanlight. Attached to the north is a narrow single-bay building topped with a large glazed lantern over a hipped roof, which has a single arched window on the east.