50, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Waverley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 July 1990. Engineering works, ambulance station. 5 related planning applications.
50, West Street
- WRENN ID
- dusk-thatch-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Waverley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 July 1990
- Type
- Engineering works, ambulance station
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 8346 NW FARNHAM WEST STREET 4/400 No 50 II Engineering works, later ambulance station. Late C19. Red brick in English bond with stock brick dressings and C20 pantiles. Gable front with stone and brick coping and kneelers. Gable has plaque with 'GEO ELLIOTT'. First floor has 2 circular windows and round-headed loading door opening with keystone. Large cambered opening with keystone and impost blocks to ground floor. 4 cambered metal casements to sides. Wooden double doors. Interior of 4 bays with plain boarding. Included for historical interest as a plaque recalls that 'John Henry Knight's car. one of Britain's earliest petrol driven vehicles was built here' by George Parfitt at the Elliott Reliance Works 1895'. This car is believed to be the first petrol driven vehicle on English roads and is now housed in the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu.
Listing NGR: SU8344446557
Detailed Attributes
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