Hart Lane Water Tower
HART LANE WATER TOWER, HART LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146452
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Hart Lane Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- HART LANE WATER TOWER, HART LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146452
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Hart Lane Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- HART LANE WATER TOWER, HART LANE
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:
- HART LANE WATER TOWER, HART LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Luton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10054 22080
Details
HART LANE 1. 5123 Hart Lane Water Tower TL 12 SW 7/3 II
2. 1901. Luton grey bricks with red brick dressings and terra cotta decoration, Stone slates. Octagonal plan, 4 storeys. Conical roof, deep projecting eaves, surmounted by finial. Smaller, similar, demi-tower on west face, reaching up to fourth floor housing staircase: two square headed casement windows in line under one with cambered head. Roof of main tower has 4 gables near apex and 4 gabled dormers set lower down in roof. Decorative terracotta frieze below eaves. Top stage has square recessed panels filled alternately with six-light casement windows with glazing barn, flanked by pilasters and surmounted with keystone, and similar blank arcades. Two moulded bands beneath run around the tower, containing on all except the west face a recessed rectangular panel with guilloche decoration in terracotta. The lower three floors, apart from the west face, are contained within three storey recesses with cambered heads with series of terracotta mouldings including one with foliated decoration. In each recess is a second storey round headed window with glazing bars, with keystone and dripmould above, moulded band and apron below. In alternate recesses there is also a first storey square headed window with glazing bars, with drip mould above and moulded band and apron below. The tower was erected following the drought of 1898 which left Stopsley without water (W Austin, Luton and Its Hamlet, 1928, II p 213).
Listing NGR: TL1005422080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35822
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Austin, W, Luton and Its Hamlet, (1928), 213
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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