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LHL083, Faversham

LHL083

Published on Thursday, September 4.

Updated on Friday, September 12.

Pumping Station, Outhouse and Manager’s Cottage, built as a single development by the Borough of Faversham in 1911 as part of their improved sewage disposal system for the town. All 3 buildings are constructed of local yellow stock bricks with rubbed red brick arches to doors and windows, artificial stone window cills and corbelled red bricks (some diagonally laid) to eaves details. Highly modelled pitched roofs, covered with peg tiles, betray the functions of the spaces beneath and on the Pump House include a square turret, the sides of which are clad in club pattern tiles. Typically utilitarian but interestingly detailed, early 20th Century joinery to doors, windows, eaves and ventilation panels of the Pump House and Outbuilding. Unfortunately, the doors and windows to the Cottage have been replaced and some eaves brickwork has been rendered over. Attractive, late Art Nouveau inspired iron railings to the ‘areas’ around the Pump House. This group of buildings is an important relic of the Borough’s remarkable programme of urban improvements in the early-mid 20th Century, is contemporary with their Pump House at Town Quay (Listed Grade II) and likely to be by the same designer.