Industrial record MCC5203 - Inworth Pumping Station, Kelvedon Road, Inworth

Summary

Early C20 pumping station.

Location

Grid reference TL 8757 1903 (point)
Map sheet TL81NE
Civil Parish MESSING-CUM-INWORTH, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Full Description

This pumping station has been developed in three stages starting in 1928, 1938 and 1968. The oldest part of the building has a pyramidal roof of slate with a ball at the apex and an ogee iron rainwater gutter. It is of red brick with a blue brick plinth band and a stone band at arch springer level and dado level, the latter with a blue brick course beneath it. Window and door openings are in Romanesque style, recessed with a hood mould on the extrados of the half round arches. Windows are bricked up, those in the north elevation may have been built blind. The newer buildings are flat-roofed, of red brick with blue brick plinths and have bricked up windows under concrete lintels. <1>.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> DESC TEXT: Crosby, Tony. 1999. The Public Water Supply Industry in Essex 1850-1939.

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Record last edited

Feb 6 2017 7:55AM

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