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Detached double-height former waterworks building, built 1863, comprising gable-fronted single-bay former beam engine house with former boiler house and coal store set perpendicular to north. Lower advanced gable-fronted single-bay horizontal engine house added to east in 1868. Now in use as interpretative centre. Pitched slate roofs with monitor light, lead flashing to gables and cast-iron rainwater goods. Squared roughly coursed red sandstone walls with cast-iron wall ties, cut limestone pediments to front (south) gables, quoins, stringcourses and date plaque to west elevation. Round-headed window openings with alternating red sandstone and cut limestone voussoirs to south and east elevations, redbrick voussoirs to west elevation, continuous cut limestone sill courses and two-over-two and four-over-four with fanlight timber sliding sash windows. Segmental-headed door openings to ground floor accessed by limestone steps and having alternating red sandstone and cut limestone voussoirs to front elevation, red brick voussoirs to west elevation and double-leaf timber battened doors. Set within former water works site.
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