Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair)
WATER TOWER (EASTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237483
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair)
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER (EASTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237483
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair)
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TOWER (EASTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN
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 (EASTERNMOST OF PAIR), ROCKWELL GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST1261620025
Details
SCHEDULE
WELLINGTON
1. ROCKWELL GREEN
ST 1220 + (West side)
ST 1320 Water Tower
1/132 (easternmost of pair)
II G.V.
Water tower. Late C19. Red brick in English bond with black brick plinth and yellow brick
bands; steel water tower. Circular 4-storey tower, tapering on ground and 1st floors, has
plinth with stepped sloping top, deep stepped cornice and carries water tank surmounted by
swept conical steel-plated roof with weather-vane. On north side of tower is round-arched,
battened board door with decorative hinges;on the floors above it are a round-arched
opening with stone sill,an oculus, and another round-arched opening, louvred. The south-east
and south-west sides have similar fenestration with round-arched openings instead of the
door and the lower openings blind; on the south-west side the top-most opening is a flat-
arched doorway with iron-bracketed platform from which an inspection ladder rises up the
side of the tank. The tank has riveted panels and riveted posts supporting roof, there
being a gap between this and the top of the tank; on the north side of the tank is a measure.
Listing NGR: ST1261620025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270074
- 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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