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Lifetime Lab — Lee Road

weighbridge/weighhouse
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Lifetime Lab — Lee Road
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Detached single-storey former weighhouse, built 1858, with two-bay original portion to south-west corner incorporated in rebuilt former workshop. Now in use as school resource centre. Pitched artificial slate roof with monitor light. Alternating red sandstone and grey limestone stonework with cut limestone plinth to south-west corner and render walls to remainder of building. Round-headed door openings with alternating voussoirs, opening to east partially blocked with timber casement window, timber battened door to west opening. Segmental- and square-headed openings to extension with recent window and door fittings. Cast-iron weighbridge, with maker's mark and upright scales. Scale has fluted shaft and curving arm. Square-profile rubble stone piers with cut limestone facing west elevation having red brick caps, accessing cobblestone laneway to west of site. Set within former water works complex.

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