Listed Building record TQ 54 NW 127 - WATERWORKS

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. LEIGH LEIGH
5280 High Street (South East Side) TQ 54 NW SP/113 Waterworks 19/113 II
2. Waterworks 1870s; for Samuel Morley and probably by George Devey (1820-86). Red brick and gault brick walls. Plain tile roofs. T-shaped complex comprising two octagonal buildings with octagonal cupolas and a single storey rectangular wing on SE with lower, hipped roofed cross-wing. Smaller, SW octagonal building connected by link wing with door in brick segmental arch to rectangular wing, its south gable with cusped barge- board, two two-light windows with margin lights and octagonal panes and a bulls-eye window in the gable. The stump of the pumping engine chimney remains in the angle with the lower and hipped SE cross-wing. The smaller, octagonal building on SW contains the well, with total depth of 103 feet, and with a diameter of 12 feet for the first 36 feet. The longer octagonal building formerly contained a softening and filter house. A direct acting steam pump pumped water into the reservoir at Hall Place, into another reservoir for the village and into the tanks at Home Farm.
Listing NGR: TQ5464846404 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF098789 THE WATERWORKS, HIGH STREET, LEIGH

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.