Description

FELTON B 6345
NU 1800
(East side)
8/4/87 Felton
Former Gas Works
12/101
buildings at Gas
Works Farm
II

Gas Works, mid-C19. Squared stone with cut dressings and brick buttress;
Welsh slate roof. Rectangular retort house with outbuilding range to south.
East elevation: Retort house single storey, 2 bays. Central round-arched
doorway; semicircular window to right with iron-framed radial glazing, stone
surround and slightly-projecting sill; stable door with 4-pane overlight to
left; broad raking buttress at left end. Coped gables; broad square stack,
projecting from left return, now terminates a little above roof ridge since
brick upper part removed. To left is lower 4-bay outbuilding; former arcade
of round arches altered, except for blocked arch at right end; coped left end
gable.

Rear elevation (to road): Retort house shows 2 iron-framed semicircular
windows with cemented-over roundel between.

Interior: Retort house has roof structure entirely composed of iron rods,
to reduce fire risk.

Rare example of small rural gasworks. The outbuilding range, in poor condition
at time of survey, is included for group value.

Listing NGR: NU1831500364

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26447699

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Recommended Books

• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)