BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL

BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL, WOODWATER LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375632
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL, WOODWATER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375632
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL, WOODWATER LANE

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:: BRICK BUILT WATER TOWER IN THE GROUNDS OF DIGBY HOSPITAL, WOODWATER LANE

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

County:: Devon
District:: Exeter (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX 95474 91159

Details

SX99SE WOODWATER LANE

871/25/10161 Brick built Water Tower in the grounds of Digby Hospital

II

Water tower of asylum. Circa 1885-6; probably by R. Stark Wilkinson, the architect of Digby Hospital. Red brick with moulded brick classical details. Rectangular on plan with rounded corners. 4 x 6-bay arcaded sides with rubbed brick round arches, pilasters, moulded imposts and plinth, the cornices and coping breaking forwards at the pilasters which rise into the parapet. The open arcades form aisles around the core of the structure with transverse arches.

Listing NGR: SX9547491159

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Legacy System number:: 469606
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.