WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE

WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE, HEATHFIELD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271152
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE
Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE, HEATHFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271152
Date first listed:: 27-Nov-2000
List Entry Name:: WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE
Statutory Address 1:: WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE, HEATHFIELD ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WATER TOWER AT DROPMORE ESTATE, HEATHFIELD ROAD

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Taplow
National Grid Reference:: SU9253586176

Details

SU 98 NW 411/3/10037 27-NOV-00

TAPLOW HEATHFIELD ROAD Water Tower at Dropmore Estate

GV II

Water tower. Dated 1900 on a datestone on south elevation. Gothic style. Built of red brick with stone dressings strengthened by iron girders and white brick to interior. Roof concealed by cornice. Three storeys;one window. Projecting cornice and plinth. The exterior was much concealed by creeper. South or main front has large Diocletian windows to second floor, tripartite window to first floor and round-headed arched doorcase to ground floor having plank door with elaborate ironmongery. East elevation has rectangular window openings and narrow door. INTERIOR: original chequerwork floor to ground floor which alsohas exposed iron girders and column with foliated capital. First floor retains massive square cast iron water tank. Second floor has no equipment. HISTORY: Estate water tower to the Dropmore estate.

Listing NGR: SU9253586176

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 486923
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.