Listed Building: WATER TOWER, 50 METRES WEST OF ORWELL PARK SCHOOL (286187)
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Grade | II |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 286187 |
Date assigned | 20 May 1985 |
Date last amended |
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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Location
Grid reference | TM 21646 39572 (point) |
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Map sheet | TM23NW |
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Record last edited
Jul 25 2012 4:02PM