Pumping House To North Of Farm Buildings At Home Farm

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MILL ROAD (West Side) Pumping House to North of Farm buildings at Home Farm

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2. Mid C19 [Appears in view of "The Dairy," Swanbourne, by Fredk. Mason d. 1st Dec 1846]. Nodular flint of freak size, with galleting. Pulborough stone dressings. Granite plinth. Roof collapsed, but was formerly half-hipped. 1 storey. Corbelled parapet. Clasping buttresses at corners. 1 planked door in round arch with plain chamfer at each end, at north end masked by porch with pitched slate roof, and gable coping taken on kneelers. This has semi-circular arch with 3 roll mouldings on intrados, taken on 3 3/4 colonnettes with cushion capitals and Romanesque bases. West elevation has 2 2-light windows with plain round arches taken on colonnettes with cushion capitals and Romanesque bases: grouped under 1 relieving arch each with a simple hollow chamfer. Diagonal lead glazing bars. East elevation has 2 2-light oblong windows with plain chamfers. Diagonal lead glazing bars. Machinery derelict. [The "show" facade is on the west, since before circa 1350 Mill Road did not exist, and the road to South Stoke passed on the west side of the buildings at Swanbourne. Mason's view suggests that tte pumping house and the farmyard were the earliest buildings of the group].

The Home Farmhouse farm buildings, pumping house and bridge form a group together with the retaining walls to the pools.

Listing NGR: TQ0180907746