Waterworks is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1985. Waterworks.
Waterworks
- WRENN ID
- fallen-remnant-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1985
- Type
- Waterworks
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Waterworks, built in the 1870s for Samuel Morley and likely designed by George Devey, is a Grade II listed building. It features red brick and gault brick walls with plain tile roofs. The structure is a T-shaped complex that includes two octagonal buildings topped with octagonal cupolas, along with a single-storey rectangular wing on the southeast side that has a lower, hipped roofed cross-wing.
The smaller octagonal building on the southwest is connected to the rectangular wing by a link wing, which has a door set in a brick segmental arch. The south gable of this building is adorned with a cusped barge-board, and it has two two-light windows with margin lights and octagonal panes, as well as a bulls-eye window in the gable. A remnant of the pumping engine chimney can be found at the angle with the lower hipped cross-wing.
The smaller octagonal building houses a well that is 103 feet deep and 12 feet in diameter for the first 36 feet. The larger octagonal building previously served as a softening and filter house. A direct acting steam pump was used to pump water into the reservoir at Hall Place, another reservoir for the village, and into the tanks at Home Farm.
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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
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