Water Tower
WATER TOWER, DEBDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205709
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER, DEBDEN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-08-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/03739/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1205709
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TOWER, DEBDEN ROAD
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:
- WATER TOWER, DEBDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Saffron Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53883 37659
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL53NW DEBDEN ROAD 669-1/3/135 Water Tower
II
Water tower. 1913. Architect AH Forbes, Borough Surveyor. Red brick. Approx 8m square, 28m high. Stepped plinth with round arched doorway and foundation plaque on W side. Upper tank stage has clasping pilasters and supporting cornice with 3 blind depressed arched recesses with splayed sills on each face. Motif continued down to plinth through 3 stages, the recesses becoming progressively longer but shallower. The tower was constructed by J Custerson, local builder and a photograph of it under construction exists. (Stacey HC: Saffron Walden in Old Photographs: Saffron Walden: 1980-: FIG.73).
Listing NGR: TL5388337659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370517
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stacey, HC, Saffron Walden in Old Photographs, (1980)
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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