Guess the Place

[Beachbum]

You have it MartinR. So the Chimney was an Obelisk. The Maidstone Waterworks was built in 1860 and the Chimney removed around 1900

[MartinR]

Former pumping station at East Farleigh.  Location:

• Nat Grid:                  TQ7345453552
• Nearest Post Code:  ME16 9NB
• Co-ords (WGS84):   51°15'17"N,000°29'03"E or 51.254751,0.484270

Here's an illustration of it with its missing "unusual feature", in reality a stack: https://s3.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/lbimg/101/263/788/101263788-135544-800.jpg

It's grade II listed, official listing here: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1263788?section=official-list-entry and a more detailed description here: https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/04236/26

A further Historic England entry adds the following:

The waterworks was built in 1860 in an Egyptian style. It provided water to Maidstone which, in 1897, suffered one of the worst outbreaks of typhoid in the country. Polluted spring water entered the waterworks which failed to filter out the bacteria and the supply was not turned off soon enough. It was later used as a coachworks and joinery.

[johnfilmer]

You need to power a pumping station, so a chimney?

[MartinR]

River: Medway?
Influence: Egyptian?

[Beachbum]

The Buttresses appear to be part of the design influence (overseas) and in keeping with the missing feature

[Beachbum]

Beside a well known River..........

[Beachbum]

It is indeed an Old Pumping Station johnfilmer. Not in the Thanet Area, and not a pitched roof.

[John Walker]

Somewhere in Thanet?

[MartinR]

Looking at that substantial buttressing, is it designed to contain an explosion of some sort?  A hydraulic accumulator, or gunpowder store comes to mind.

[grandarog]

Maybe a pitched Roof.

[MartinR]

a very detailed photograph.

FYI: Canon EOS 4000D camera with a Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 III lens zoomed out to 18mm (APS-C, equivalent to 28.3mm).  ISO 100, 1/320s, f/8.0  The resulting JPG was passed through GIMP to crop the image (around 50%) and reduce the quality to 50% to keep the file size down.

[johnfilmer]

Old pumping station?

It is certainly a substantial structure, and I also went for water tank at first glance.

[Beachbum]

Not a Water Tank Stewie

[Stewie]

is it a water tank?

[Beachbum]

Thanks MartinR, a very detailed photograph. shoot999 has answered my next question, thanks.


The next one has a unusual feature removed, what is missing from the original structure?