Description

SOUTH BENFLEET HIGH ROAD
TQ 78 NE (west side)

1/11 Former Pumping Station

- II

Former water pumping station, now Benfleet Christian Fellowship Hall. C19.
Red brick, double range grey slate roof, stone parapet verges, impost level band
and plinth coping. Moulded brick eaves cornice. Single storey. Central
forward gable, round headed doorway with keystone, double doors, glazing bars to
fanlight. Right and left iron double windows with glazing bars, each with round
heads, red brick arches, stone imposts and stone cills, stone and brick bands
and plinths follow through to rear. A stone plaque to gable now covered by
creeper. Returns each with 1:1 similar windows and roundels with glazing bars
to each gable apex. Rear with 2 similar windows to south and similar door to
north, details as for front. Interior. Front and rear walls each with 4 cast
iron support columns, 3 central columns, these with octagonal lower stems,
circular upper stem and fluted capitals, metal roof trusses, ribbed and boarded
ceiling. Moulded dado band. Moulded door and window surrounds. Moulded
cornice.

Listing NGR: TQ7769186874

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26463267

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)