Local Listing Recommendations approved by West Berkshire Council

Following a Consultation, the recommendation to add eight new heritage assets to the Local List has been approved by West Berkshire Council. The new Locally Listed assets are:

A pump and well house at East Ilsley - a 1930's flywheel pump which is still in working order.

 

A pump and pump house at Burghfield - the pump in School Lane may have supplied the school with water in the early 1900's, while the pump house at Bunces Lane contains the remains of a pump base, and carries a dedication to Queen Victoria in the year of her son Edward VII's Coronation (1902).

No 6, Northbrook Street, Newbury - a shop built in 1886 for the draper William Clark, and designed by Walter Henry Bell, a local architect.

The Crabtree Community Centre, Hermitage, - formerly part of the WW2 American military hospital complex.

White Lodge, Donnington - a former late C19th lodge or gate house for the Donnington Grove estate, now residential.

A Victorian Post Box at Welford - a scarce National Standard No 2 wall mounted box from 1859-61.

A metal stile at Marlston - C19th metal stile made by the Hedges Foundry of Bucklebury.

 

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