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Detached two-bay single-storey pumping station engine house with half-attic, dated 1857, on a rectangular plan with single-bay full-height side elevations. Derelict, 1969. Modified, ----, to accommodate alternative use. Now disused. Pitched slate roof with clay ridge tiles, cut-limestone coping to gables with roll moulded finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods on cut-limestone eaves retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered red brick English Garden Wall bond walls on rendered plinth. Elliptical-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and drag edged dragged cut-limestone monolithic surrounds framing sixteen-over-twelve timber sash windows without horns (ground floor) or timber pivot windows (half-attic). Set on slobland.
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