WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1197069
- Date first listed:
- 22-Mar-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Mar-1976
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL, TOWER HILL
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL, TOWER HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 42319 08453
Details
ORMSKIRK
SD40NW TOWER HILL
663-1/4/179 (East side)
22/03/76 Water Tower on Tower Hill
II*
Water tower. 1853-4. For Ormskirk Local Board of Health; now
derelict. Coursed squared sandstone, slate roof (dilapidated).
Square plan. Romanesque style. Tall tower with 2 narrow
full-height Romanesque arches in each side, all with stepped
surrounds and arch-bands, linked by an impost band carried
round; plain frieze with carved grotesques at the corners, and
very emphatic corbelling in machicolated form, surmounted by a
large tank enclosed by what appears to be ashlar walling.
Pyramidal roof now lacking most slates. HISTORY: unusual
survival of early Local Board waterworks structure.
Conspicuous landmark on east side of town.
Listing NGR: SD4231908453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386420
- 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.
End of official listing