Brick Water Tower
BRICK WATER TOWER, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083219
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Brick Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- BRICK WATER TOWER, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083219
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Brick Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRICK WATER TOWER, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
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:
- BRICK WATER TOWER, LOWER BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goole
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 74141 23456
Details
GOOLE LOWER BRIDGE STREET SE 7423 (west side, off)
14/70 Brick water tower 31.1.78
GV II Water tower. 1885. Red brick in English bond. Sheet metal dome. Cast- iron water tank. 3-stage cylindrical tower approximately 43 metres high and 10 metres in diameter. Bottom stage, containing west entrance, forms deep plinth with stepped chamfered cap. Round headed entrance has raised round- chamfered surround and 5 chamfered orders to sheet metal door. Tall second stage consists of fluted tower shaft with recessed panels stepped in to top and bottom, 5 tiers with 4 slit lights to each tier, corbelled brick cornice. Drum-shaped top stage has plain plinth, 4 slit lights, plain raised brick frieze, moulded ashlar cornice, rounded ashlar blocking course and dome. Superceded by nearby reinforced concrete water tower of 1927 (qv). No longer in use. Barbey M F, Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England, 1981, pp 99, 100.
Listing NGR: SE7414123456
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 165297
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barbey, MF, Civil Engineering Heritage Northern England, (1981), 99,100
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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