WATER TOWER 260M WEST OF ST ANTONY'S CONVENT, LEWESTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119171
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER 260M WEST OF ST ANTONY'S CONVENT, LEWESTON
Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER 260M WEST OF ST ANTONY'S CONVENT, LEWESTON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1119171
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER 260M WEST OF ST ANTONY'S CONVENT, LEWESTON
Statutory Address 1:: WATER TOWER 260M WEST OF ST ANTONY'S CONVENT, LEWESTON

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 260M WEST OF ST ANTONY'S CONVENT, LEWESTON

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lillington
National Grid Reference:: ST 63348 12357

Details

LILLINGTON ST 61 SW -

2/69 Water Tower 260m west of Saint Antony's Convent, Leweston (q.v.)

- II

Water tower. c1930, architect probably Maxwell Ayston for Leweston Manor (q.v. Leweston CP) but now in separate ownership. Concrete structure with conical copper roof. Octagonal on plan with angle pilasters. Vertical profile slightly convex. Doorway at ground level with polygonal arch. 3 tiers of narrow slit windows diminishing in height towards top of the tower. Top stage an open viewing platform. External timber winding stair. Interesting example of Art Deco design.

Listing NGR: ST6334812357

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Legacy System number:: 106090
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.