Hythe Town Reservoir
HYTHE TOWN RESERVOIR, NORTH ROAD AND CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119742
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hythe Town Reservoir
- Statutory Address:
- HYTHE TOWN RESERVOIR, NORTH ROAD AND CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119742
- Date first listed:
- 13-May-1998
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hythe Town Reservoir
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYTHE TOWN RESERVOIR, NORTH ROAD AND CHURCH 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:
- HYTHE TOWN RESERVOIR, NORTH ROAD AND CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hythe
- National Grid Reference:
- TR1639335007
Details
TR 13 NE
6/10000
HYTHE
Hythe Town Reservoir
II
Covered reservoir. Dated 1868. Classical style covering building of ashlar ragstone with red brick dressings and roof now covered in corrugated tin. T-shaped and aligned roughly east-west.
The long walls are of dressed ragstone with plinth, brick margins and pilasters but the inner skin is of brick and rubble stone mixed. Barrel-vaulted roof but wall-head mutilated when the roof was replaced so may have been pitched originally. At the east end is a small porch, primarily of brick with dressed ragstone ashlar used for side walls. This has stone pediment, pilasters and recessed panels of alternate brick and stone and central entrance with flat arch, voussoirs and plank door. The whole internal area is occupied by the reservoir tank which is about three metres deep. The reservoir walls are built in brick and rendered. The interior of the main range is sub-divided by two cross walls with large segmantal arch spans in the centres making the tank one large space. Similar cross walls separate at the short wings at the western end from the main range. Water appears to have entered the tank directly from springs through two or three pipes at its eastern end and left from a single pipe in the bottom of the south western wing. These fittings are reported to be still present but appear to be of quite modern date. This reservoir was on the site of an old Tan Pit and the water came from a spring on land owned by Henry Bean Mackeson, Maltster, who claimed a right to the water. Agreement was reached in 1868 by which the Hythe Corporation became entitled to one half of the yield and the other half became the property of the Landowner who used it in his brew. This arrangement continued until the brewery closed.
Listing NGR: TR1639335007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469265
- 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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