WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR)

WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059879
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR)
Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1059879
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR)
Statutory Address 1:: WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER (WESTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wellington
National Grid Reference:: ST1260120018

Details

2. ST 1220 + ROCKWELL GREEN ST 1320 (West side) 1/133 Water Tower II G.V. (westernmost of pair) Water tower. c1930. Concrete. Central circular 4 storey tower surrounded by concentric pillars braced to the central tower and to each other and supporting the water tank which is of larger diameter than the tower. The central tower has plinth, double board door on north side, and on north-east, south-east,south-west and north-west sides 5 tiers of rectangular windows, mostly iron-framed with fixed 6-pane lights. The concentric pillars are square on plan with plinths and cornices, the braces triangular ended, the uppermost panels between the pillars are round-arched and from the spandrels extend brackets supporting cornice at base of tank. Tank has recessed rectangular panels, plain cornice and balustrade.

Listing NGR: ST1260120018

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 270075
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.