WATER CATCHER AT TQ 3335 0978

TQ3309 577-1/9/1114

BRIGHTON STANMER PARK Water catcher at TQ 3335 0978

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Water catcher lying between the north boundary of Stanmer Park Nurseries and the borough boundary. Approx 70 metres long and approx 12 metres wide. Built in 1870-5 to the design of Thomas Jones, estate foreman, and enlarged to the west in the 1890s. Brick, cement and a mixture of tar and sand. The surface was coated with tar and sand in the 1930s; it has with occasional breaks acting as channels, a continuous gulley to one side and a brick break, the boundary of the first build, approx 25 metres from the west; brick and cement tank at the east end, to the full width of the catch and approx 1 metre deep, with an overflow at the north-east corner and the remains of the filter system to the south end. The catcher supplied water for the internal plumbing of Stanmer House (qv) and to the estate buildings; though it now lacks the surrounding walls of timber construction and slate roof which carried water down onto its face, it is listed as a rare technical feature.

Listing NGR: TQ3338809779