WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL

WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL, TOWER HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1197069
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1976
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL
Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL, TOWER HILL

Water Tower on Tower Hill in Ormskirk. A water tower constructed in 1853-4 for Ormskirk Local Board of Health. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
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Date:: 1999-08-23
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1197069
Date first listed:: 22-Mar-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Mar-1976
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL
Statutory Address 1:: WATER TOWER ON TOWER HILL, TOWER HILL

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 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)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
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

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Legacy System number:: 386420
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.