Great Bentley Pumping Station (EHER 15580)

A water pumping station of 1903 for the Clacton-on-Sea Water Company. The engine house is a single-storeyed building, two ranges of 4-bays in polychromatic brick, with a slate roof and clay ridge tiles.

This is the site developed by the Clacton-on-Sea Company in 1903 as it expanded to meet the demands of the increasingly popular resort and which was acquired by Tendring Hundred Waterworks Co. in 1962. The site consists of a pumping station built in two ranges each four bays long. It is a red brick building with a blue brick plinth, pilasters, angle pilasters and bands. The round headed window and door arches are in yellow brick with keystones. The roof is of slate with clay ridge tiles. There is a date stone on the north façade inscribed S.F. 1903. Internally a diesel engine can be seen behind the west door, a plaque on the wall announcing it as "The Meagre Engine". Also on the site is a large cast iron tank at ground level. <1>. A water pumping station of 1903 for the Clacton-on-Sea Water Company. The engine house is a single-storeyed building, two ranges of 4-bays in polychromatic brick, with a slate roof and clay ridge tiles. <2>