WATER TOWER AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL

WATER TOWER AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234427
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1234427
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: WATER TOWER AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE

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 AT HOLLYMOOR HOSPITAL, TESSALL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 00316 78497

Details

BIRMINGHAM TESSALL LANE SP 07 NW 16/10033 Water Tower at Hollymoor Hospital II Hospital Water Tower, 1905 by Martin and Martin of Birmingham,for the Borough of Birmingham Lunatic Asylum Committee of Visitors.Rad brick with ashlar sandstone and terracotta dressings, and with copper covered dome below a lantern.6-stage tower,square on plan with shallow clasping buttresses and a central pilaster to each wall face.2 tall slit windows to each stage on all walls, the windows separated by the central pilasters.5th stage with minature pediments as hoods to openings,6th stage with pairs of coupled lights with flat traceried heads.Ashlar bands between 5th and 6th stages. Projecting cornice separates 6th stage from parapet which has a segmental pediment to the centre of each face above the end of the central pilaster.Clasping buttresses terminate at terracotta ball finials.Copper covered stilted dome with octagonal lantern below ogee roof.

Listing NGR: SP0031678497

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Legacy System number:: 410209
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.