ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER

ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER, MARKET CROSS

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269326
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER
Statutory Address:: ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER, MARKET CROSS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269326
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1976
List Entry Name:: ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER, MARKET CROSS

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:: ABBEY HOUSE WATER TOWER, MARKET CROSS

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Malmesbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 93362 87306

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9387 MARKET CROSS 758-1/4/249 (North East side) 01/07/76 Abbey House Water Tower

GV II

Water tower, now house. Mid-late C19, converted late C20. Coursed, squared limestone and dressings, roof not visible. Formerly square open plan. 3 storeys; 2-window range. A plain, square tower has a cornice band and crenellated parapet with NW raised corner turret, a left-hand doorway with chamfered surround and shouldered lintel with a C20 door, 2 outer louvred loops on second storey, with C20 windows inserted to 3 storeys on S and E sides, the latter with a shallow second-floor ashlar oriel. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly attached to the Abbey House stables.

Listing NGR: ST9336587307

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Legacy System number:: 460906
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.