Lawford Waterworks (EHER 15574)

Pumping station and service reservoir dating from 1905 for Tendring Hundred Waterworks Company. The gate lodge, a single-storeyed red brick building with a tiled roof, was built in 1908. The North engine house was built in the 1930s, is yellow brick with a slate roof in Neo-Classica Style, and of five-bays. The South engine house is similar but of three-bays.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Tendring Hundred Waterworks Co. was originally operating from a site in Mistley (TM 121 317), but in the early years of the 20th century built a service reservoir on this site. In 1905 the company moved from Mistley to a new waterworks on this site in Lawford; further expansion took place during the 1920s and 1930s. This is an extensive site with a number of structures of various ages reflecting the stages of development, including a modern but sympathetic office block. At the entrance stands a red brick, tile roofed single-storey building with terracotta plaques moulded with the initials THWWCo and the date 1908. There are two large pump houses of yellow brick and slate roofs. These have the distinctive long round headed windows, the northern most being five bays by three, the other three bays by three. Both have clerestory roofs. The site contains other structures including a small building of similar style to the pump houses. <1> <2>