Waterworks is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 October 1985. Waterworks. 2 related planning applications.
Waterworks
- WRENN ID
- fallen-remnant-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 October 1985
- Type
- Waterworks
- Address
- Waterworks, High Street, Leigh, TN11 8RT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 546 463
- Coordinates
- 51.19509, 0.21233
- 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.
Local climate
Waterworks receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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