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Detached three-bay double-height former engine house, built 1907. Now in use as interpretive centre. Pitched slate roof with monitor light and cut limestone eaves course and coping. Roughly dressed red sandstone walls to ground floor with limestone platband and string course. Red brick walls laid in English garden wall bind to upper section with cut limestone platbands and quoins. Buttresses to south elevation with limestone and sandstone to lower half and red brick to upper half. Round-headed window openings with cut limestone hood mouldings to upper section having four-over-two timber sliding sash windows. Round-headed window opening with limestone hood moulding and timber traceried window to east elevation. Round-headed door opening to west elevation with cut limestone block-and-start surround to half-glazed timber door with overlight. Segmental-headed opening to south elevation with polychromatic stonework, now having fixed-light window. Open roof to interior with cast-iron trusses and cast-iron steam engines. Located within former water works complex.
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