WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY

WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY, MAY LODGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1045602
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY
Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY, MAY LODGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1045602
Date first listed:: 10-Jul-1975
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY, MAY LODGE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER AND BOUNDARY WALL AT RUFFORD ABBEY, MAY LODGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Rufford
National Grid Reference:: SK6453464690

Details

SK 66 SW 6/71 10.7.75

RUFFORD off MAY LODGE DRIVE (north side) Water Tower and boundary wall at Rufford Abbey

G.V. II

Water tower. Late C19. By John Birch. Brick. Ashlar dressings. Bracketed ashlar eaves band with foliate corner brackets. Square plan. 5 stages. Unglazed windows have projecting ashlar architraves. To north, chamfered doorway. Each stage, above, has 4 windows. To west, single storey, single bay building, dressed stone. To north, doorway with segmental head. Adjoining boundary wall, irregularly coursed dressed stone and brick, with shaped ashlar coping. Semi-circular plan with 2 gateways. Approx. 60 M long.

Listing NGR: SK6453464690

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Legacy System number:: 241923
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.