Silverwell Reservoir
SILVERWELL RESERVOIR, BROWNSTON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325099
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Silverwell Reservoir
- Statutory Address:
- SILVERWELL RESERVOIR, BROWNSTON STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1325099
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Silverwell Reservoir
- Statutory Address 1:
- SILVERWELL RESERVOIR, BROWNSTON STREET
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:
- SILVERWELL RESERVOIR, BROWNSTON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Modbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6602851979
Details
SX 65 SE
2/99
MODBURY
BROWNSTON STREET
(east side)
Silverwell reservoir
II
Reservoir wall. 1705. Granite. Length of wall c.6.50 m x 2.5 m high, in good
squared and coursed granite to quoins; small chamfered plinth, mainly concealed
below C20 road surface but emerging at right end. Top of wall overgrown
(September 1988) but no coping visible. Wall contains two openings with
cambered lintels chamfered to stops on jambs; each opening with cast iron doors,
banded and padlocked, c.700 mm wide and 850 mm high, set at about 1.25 m from
road level. This is all that now remains from the reservoir created in 1705,
using water from the Silverwell, and serving the three conduits (qqv) which are
in the principal streets. Until the mid-1980s much of the actual reservoir
remained, but the area is now overbuilt. Of special historical interest.
Listing NGR: SX6602851979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99691
- 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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