Former East Farleigh Waterworks

FARLEIGH BRIDGE TQ 75 SW BARMING 2/7 Former East Farleigh Waterworks GV II Waterworks, now coachworks and joinery. 1860, by James Pilbrow, in an Egyptian style. Gault brick in English bond. Rectangular. 2 storeys. Coursed stone plinth towards river to south. Battered clasping buttress to each corner, and 2 set close together towards centre of each long side, all running into deep brick plat band under eaves. Rendered coved cornice with deep roll to base and chamfer to top. Low rendered parapet. Truncated projecting brick stack, formerly tall and tapering, filling most of east gable end, with cornice carried round it and bearing the initial "P". Irregular fenestration to south of one small first-floor casement almost filling the narrow central bay and one broad 10- pane window with thin glazing bars to each outer bay of ground floor, all with rendered architraves and deep rendered coved and splayed cornices. 2 inserted 3-light wooden casements. Similar first-floor window to north. First-floor door to left gable end. Single-storey section in a similar style adjoining north-west corner. 2 doorways with rendered coved and splayed cornices flanking base of stack to east. Interior not inspected. (J.S. Curl, The Egyptian Revival, 1982).

Listing NGR: TQ7188154503