Water Tower
Water Tower, Tower Road, Bedworth
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116416
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Water Tower, Tower Road, Bedworth
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116416
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Water Tower, Tower Road, Bedworth
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:
- Water Tower, Tower Road, Bedworth
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Nuneaton and Bedworth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3545986576
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 May 2023 to reformat the text to current standards
SP38NE
5/79
NUNEATON AND BEDWORTH
Bedworth
TOWER ROAD (south side)
Water Tower
13/05/87
II
Water tower, now disused. Dated 1898. English bond brick. Plain-tile pyramid roof has deep boxed eaves. Square plan. Simplified Romanesque style. Six high storeys; three window range. Ground floor is slightly battered. Double-leaf moulded six-panelled doors and fanlight are deeply recessed within doorway of six simply-moulded brick orders and hood mould. Large framed panel above has inscription 'BEDWORTH WATERWORKS 1898' in relief. Chamfered single-light windows to left and right of door. Moulded string course. Main body of tower has each face set back between large corner piers, and with deep splay to top and bottom. Full-height narrow round arches have four storeys of windows, with terracotta panels of floriated ornament between each floor. Return sides have blind arches. Moulded string course and Lombard frieze. Top stage has large angle shafts. Hallow-splayed sill. Four bay arcades to each side have stone shafts, wooden louvres and continuous hood mould. Shallow roof rises to steep pyramidal finial. Interior has iron spiral staircase. The tower is approximately 45 metres high.
Listing NGR: SP3545986576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 308620
- 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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