Needwood Manor and Attached Water Tower
NEEDWOOD MANOR AND ATTACHED WATER TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038429
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Needwood Manor and Attached Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- NEEDWOOD MANOR AND ATTACHED WATER TOWER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1038429
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Needwood Manor and Attached Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- NEEDWOOD MANOR AND ATTACHED WATER TOWER
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NEEDWOOD MANOR AND ATTACHED WATER TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- East Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tatenhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 18873 22726
Details
In the entry for TATENHILL C.P. Needwood Lodge and 5/81 attached Water Tower
The address shall be amended to read: Needwood Manor and attached Water Tower
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TATENHILL C.P. SK 12 SE 5/81 - Needwood Lodge and attached Water Tower - II
Large house. Dated 1892. Hard red brick and stone dressings; hipped and gabled tiled roof; end and side stacks. Asymmetric entrance front of 2 storeys but dominated by a 3-storey circular tower built into right end; mock-machicolations under top storey and with dentilled eaves to conical roof; pointed arch casement windows around top stage, large- pane sashes below; the remainder of the front has a projecting 3-sided wing to the left, this and the tower flank a central recess of 3 windows, the 2 outer ranges both rise to dormer roofs, the right-hand a 3-sided bay; there is a slight central break, buttressed and with a low-relief oriel to the first floor of 2 pointed lights, corbelled and roofed in stone; the gable over-has verge parapets and a centre stack rising unusually over the line of the oriel. The main entrance below is set in a Tudor arch, deep reveal moulded and with columns; double panelled doors. The water tower of 3 stages (to the north) has a flat roof behind a parapet; the upper stages panelled, the lower with mock arrow loops and a Tudor-arched door. Interior: 2-storey stair hall, galleried and screened in carved cusped and moulded pine. Elaborate boarded timber floors.
Listing NGR: SK1887322726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 273660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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