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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 05 NW 43 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Copton Waterworks, off Ashford Road, Faversham |
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Summary
This complex of buildings includes the remains of a windmill, engine house and workers cottages as well as the reservoir and waterworks themselves.
| Grid Reference: | TR 01291 59547 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR05NW |
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| Parish: | FAVERSHAM, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WATERWORKS (Post Medieval to Modern - 1830 AD? to 2050 AD)
- RESERVOIR (Post Medieval to Modern - 1863 AD? to 2050 AD)
- WINDMILL (Water pump TR 05 NW 23, Post Medieval to Modern - 1863 AD? to 2050 AD)
- OFFICE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1873 AD? to 2050 AD)
- WORKERS COTTAGE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1873 AD? to 2050 AD)
- WORKSHOP (Post Medieval to Modern - 1873 AD? to 2050 AD)
- ENGINE HOUSE (Modern - 1914 AD? to 2050 AD)
Full description
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Waterworks which developed from either 1863 or 1830. The site consists of a Listed GII brick windmill ( TR 05 NW 23) used originally to pump water. The cap and sails are missing and an iron water tank has been placed at its summit. To the rear of this is a rectangular overgrown structure likely to be a reservoir. To the east there is a brick engine house built in 1914 with a pitched roof, and an office building with a single storey extension workshop. Finally there are the waterworks cottages at the entrance.(1)
<1> Trent and Peak Archaeological Unit, 2002, Water & Sewage Industries Step 3 Report, Kent 3 (Unpublished document). SKE8085.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Trent and Peak Archaeological Unit. 2002. Water & Sewage Industries Step 3 Report. Kent 3. |
