Water Tower
WATER TOWER, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329338
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address:
- WATER TOWER, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329338
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Water Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER TOWER, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
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, THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4254869553
Details
CALSTOCK THE BUTTS INCLINE RAILWAY DEPOT,
SX 46 NW
Calstock
4/63 Water tower
16.5.86
GV II
Water tower. Circa 1872. Slatestone rubble with brick dressings.
Plan: Rectangular plan water tower. The tank was open-top, set at the top of the
tower. The water tower has a tall round arch, up to the height of the stonework ;
above the arch the tower is in brick. There is an iron ladder set on the side of the
tower for inspection of the tank.
The water tower was used for the engines running on the Mineral Railway and a
portable steam engine on the incline. The tower was maintained after the incline was
disused as a water system was intalled using gravity only, and water pressure, to
supply water to the station at Calstock town.
Sources: Tamar Valley Project. Barton, D.B.: Mines and Mineral Railway of East
Cornwall and West Devon 1964.
Listing NGR: SX4254869553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 60813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Barton, D B, A Historical Survey of the Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon, (1964)
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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