Water Tower At East Side Of Junction With Cleanthus Road

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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4412 SHOOTERS HILL SE18 (North Side)

Water Tower at East side of junction with Cleanthus Road TQ 4376 42/406

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1910. Octagonal Tower. Blank base of 2-storey height and 6 stages above (the 5th blank). Pointed, swept tiled roof with gabled dormers on alternate faces.

Multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings. Wood and stone moulded main eaves cornice. Dormers have 3 stepped slit windows and red brick moulded eaves cornice. Top stage, of red brick, has 3 round arched openings to each face, with stone cills. Beneath this a blank stage with red brick arched corbelling and angle lesenes which merge with slightly projecting upper floor. Below this, each face has a 4-storey, long, round arched recess, defined in red brick, and within this on each floor, a round headed slit window. Recesses rest on red brick moulded and dentilled cornice of bottom stage. Plinth about 8 ft high with stone coping.

Listing NGR: TQ4376876476

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0193 IOE Records taken by Nick Blackburn; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Nick Blackburn. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project