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engine house — Unknown

engine house
engine house — Unknown
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Detached three-bay single-storey pumping station engine house, extant 1852, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (single-bay deep) single-storey off-central return (west). "Improved", 1910-1, producing present composition. Upgraded, 1967-9. "Restored", 1991. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan with roll moulded terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-spotted cut-granite coping to gables on cut-granite corbel kneelers with roll moulded cruciform finials to apexes, and cast-iron rainwater goods retaining cast-iron downpipes. Repointed red brick Flemish bond walls on cut-granite plinth with cut-granite flush quoins to corners. Segmental-headed door opening (south) with cut-granite step threshold, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Segmental-headed window openings (north) with cut-granite sills, and repointed red brick voussoirs framing timber casement windows having fanlights. Set on slobland.
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