Bailey Hill Water Tower
BAILEY HILL WATER TOWER, WEST HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321343
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Bailey Hill Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- BAILEY HILL WATER TOWER, WEST HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1321343
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Bailey Hill Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- BAILEY HILL WATER TOWER, WEST HILL ROAD
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:
- BAILEY HILL WATER TOWER, WEST HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Luton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 09201 20067
Details
WEST HILL ROAD 1. 5123 Bailey Hill Water Tower TL 0920 4/3 II
2. 1901. Bold Arts and Crafts design comparable with work of Townsend. Design consultant Henry T Hare. Luton grey bricks, stone dressings. Square plan on splayed plinth with stone mouldings, and rounded demi tower at each corner, the north-west one forming stair tower with narrow slit casement windows. The north face has a low broad round arched deeply recessed ground floor entrance in stone. On other 3 faces at first floor level is a single round headed mullioned and transomed window, with iron glazing bars, quoining and splayed cill. At upper level all four faces have a pair of 2 light mullioned windows with iron glazing bars. Above these, each face has a heavy rectangular stone balcony supported on three pairs of brackets and with a projecting spout at each end. Above the balcony, a broad round headed arch springs from the demi towers to form a recess, within which a central door surmounted by a tripartite keystone gives access to the balcony and is flanked on either side by 4 casements windows with iron glazing bars. Upper section of tower decorated with stone bands of various widths. Pyramidal roof of stone slates with deeply projecting eaves, a winged figure acting as a corbel or bracket support at each of the four corners. Small hipped dormer to each face of roof. Built to supply water to Stopsley after the drought of 1898. (W Austin, Luton and Its Hamlets, 1928, II p 213).
Listing NGR: TL0920120067
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35858
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Austin, W, Luton and Its Hamlet, (1928), 213
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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