Listed Building record MDO15441 - Superintendent's House, Old Water Works, Iford Lane, Tuckton, Bournemouth

Superintendent's house at the Old Water Works. Two storeyed building with half-hipped gables. It was occupied 1900-13 by Russian emigres led by Count Vladimir Tchertkoff, who set up here the Free Age Press on which many of Tolstoy's later works (banned in Russia) were first printed.

Superintendent's house next to road, 2 storeys, asymmetrical T-plan, with half- hipped gables, slate roof with ornamental tile ridge, segment-headed windows, flat-roofed extension. Both this house and the pumping station are included partly for industrial qualities, but principally for historical reasons : they were occupied 1900-13 by Russian emigres led by Count Vladimir Tchertkoff, who set up here the Free Age Press on which many of Tolstoy's later works (banned in Russia) were first printed.

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

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