Listed Building: WATER TOWER, 50 METRES WEST OF ORWELL PARK SCHOOL (286187)

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Grade II
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Volume/Map/Item 286187
Date assigned 20 May 1985
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Description

In the entry for NACTON ORWELL PARK 5/21 Water tower, 50 metres west of Orwell Park House the address shall be amended to read ORWELL PARK Water tower, 50 metres west of Orwell Park School TM 23 NW NACTON ORWELL PARK 5/21 Water tower, 50 metres - west of Orwell Park House - II Water tower, c.1873. Supplying water for domestic use at Orwell Park. 4 stages, about 20 metres high. Red brick with dressings of limestone. The base stage has banded rusticated brickwork, and at the corners angle buttresses, each having a limestone urn finial. On each face of the 2nd stage are paired blind windows with semicircular heads, and at the corners less prominent angle buttresses with fleur-de-lys finials. The 3rd stage has smaller paired windows and shallow clasping-buttresses. The 4th stage has a large single window with balustruding beneath. The parapets have a moulded and dentilled cornice, and open balustrading with obelisk finials on corner piers: Listing NGR: TM2164639572

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Grid reference TM 21646 39572 (point)
Map sheet TM23NW

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Jul 25 2012 4:02PM

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