Water Tower at West Park Hospital
WATER TOWER AT WEST PARK HOSPITAL, WEST PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232481
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower at West Park Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER AT WEST PARK HOSPITAL, WEST PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232481
- Date first listed:
- 09-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower at West Park Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TOWER AT WEST PARK HOSPITAL, WEST PARK ROAD
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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.
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 AT WEST PARK HOSPITAL, WEST PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 18489 61366
Details
EPSOM West Park Road TQ 1861-1961 (West side off) 25/244 Water Tower at West Park Hospital II
Hospital water tower. Designed 1909, built 1913-21. By Clifford Smith for London County Council. Brown brick in irregular Flemish bond with red brick dressings; Welsh slate roof. 6 storeys, 2 x 1 bays. Narrow 8-pane sashes under flat red brick arches with tall, narrow, keystones. Metal straps. At top, corbelled balconies project below round-arched, small-pane glazed doors. Swept oversailing roof. Tall battered chimney at south-west corner has a central pilaster to each side, stone cornice and semicircular pediments below stone, iron-banded top part. Attached ancillary buildings at base of tower not of special interest.
The tower contains 3 large water tanks with a capacity of 25,000 gallons, and has a solid brick base.
Listing NGR: TQ1848961366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407848
- 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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