Water Tower (Including Attached Engine House) , 60 Metres South East of Sotterley Hall

WATER TOWER (INCLUDING ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE), 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOTTERLEY HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183289
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Water Tower (Including Attached Engine House) , 60 Metres South East of Sotterley Hall
Statutory Address:
WATER TOWER (INCLUDING ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE), 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOTTERLEY HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183289
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Water Tower (Including Attached Engine House) , 60 Metres South East of Sotterley Hall
Statutory Address 1:
WATER TOWER (INCLUDING ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE), 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOTTERLEY HALL

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WATER TOWER (INCLUDING ATTACHED ENGINE HOUSE), 60 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SOTTERLEY HALL

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

County:
Suffolk
District:
East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Sotterley
National Grid Reference:
TM 45946 85147

Details

SOTTERLEY SOTTERLEY PARK TM 4585 7/52 Water tower (including - attached engine house), 60m south east of Sotterley Hall

GV II

Water cower. Late C19. Red brick, with a pyramidal plaintiled roof surmounted by a wind vane. Square on plan. There are pilaster strips to the quoins and a corbelled brick band between each floor. Semi-circular arched doorway with boarded doors. Each of the 2 main upper floors has a single semi-circular arched opening on the south and west sides only. Above is a brick cornice and a narrower stage containing the water tanks. Attached is a mid C19 single-storey engine house: red brick with rusticated quoins to match the Hall and a corrugated iron roof. There is a Lister oil engine.

Listing NGR: TM4594685147

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
282011
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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