Water Tower
Water Tower, Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, March
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228967
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Water Tower, Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, March
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1228967
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Water Tower, Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, March
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, Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, March
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- March
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4129599052
Details
TL 49 NW
8/10000
MARCH
WHITEMOOR MARSHALLING YARD
Water Tower
II
Railway water tower. Late C19. Red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings. Welded steel tank. Rectangular plan. Sides have blind arcades; north and south of one bay, east and west two bays; with tall round arches with plain stone imposts. The east and west arches have large segmentally arched windows with cast-iron frames with glazing bars, the centre panes form a pivoted opening light. Brick cornice above and surmounted by large rectangular welded steel tank, probably a replacement.
Interior not inspected.
Note: March was a passenger interchange point and the Whitemoor Yard a major freight marshalling centre, which was substantially modernised in 1925 by the LNER, and covered an area of 68 acres.
Listing NGR: TL4129599052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403708
- 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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