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Lambeth Muniments Building, Portsmouth Road
Lambeth Muniments Building, Portsmouth Road
Lambeth Muniments Building
Seething Wells
Portsmouth Road
- Date of Listing: 29 October 2003
- Reference: 59/0/10079
- Grade: II
Description
Muniments building for waterworks, currently a store. 1850-1852 by James Simpson for the Lambeth Waterworks in Romanesque style. Built of stock brick in English bond with sandstone dressings and hipped slate roof with moulded sanstone cornice. One storey: 9 x 3 bays. The long sides facing south west and north east are of nine bays, the ends of three bays.
Exterior
The north east elevation has three large recessed panels, each with three round headed arches with Diocletian windows, sandstone impost blocks and plinths. The seond and fifth openings from the left have round headed doorcases containing double wooden doors with built in fanlights. The south west elevation is similar but with one doorcase in the second arch from the left. The end elevations each have a similar panel with three Diocletian windows.
