Former East Farleigh Waterworks is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1987. Waterworks, coachworks, joinery.
Former East Farleigh Waterworks
- WRENN ID
- peeling-flue-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1987
- Type
- Waterworks, coachworks, joinery
- Address
- Former East Farleigh Waterworks, Barming, ME16 9NB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 734 535
- Coordinates
- 51.25484, 0.48433
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former East Farleigh Waterworks, built in 1860 by James Pilbrow, is now used as coachworks and joinery. This building is designed in an Egyptian style and constructed from gault brick in English bond. It is rectangular and has two storeys. A coursed stone plinth runs along the south side towards the river. Each corner features battered clasping buttresses, with two additional buttresses set close together towards the center of each long side, all of which rise into a deep brick plat band under the eaves. The building has a rendered coved cornice with a deep roll at the base and a chamfer at the top, along with a low rendered parapet.
A truncated projecting brick stack, which was once tall and tapering, occupies most of the east gable end and has a cornice that wraps around it, displaying the initial "P". The south elevation features irregular fenestration, including a small first-floor casement that nearly fills the narrow central bay and a broad 10-pane window with thin glazing bars in each outer bay of the ground floor. All windows have rendered architraves and deep rendered coved and splayed cornices. There are two inserted three-light wooden casements and a similar first-floor window on the north side. A first-floor door is located on the left gable end.
Adjoining the north-west corner is a single-storey section designed in a similar style. Two doorways with rendered coved and splayed cornices flank the base of the stack on the east side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former East Farleigh Waterworks sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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