Needwood Manor And Attached Water Tower

In the entry for TATENHILL C.P. Needwood Lodge and 5/81 attached Water Tower

The address shall be amended to read: Needwood Manor and attached Water Tower

TATENHILL C.P. SK 12 SE 5/81 - Needwood Lodge and attached Water Tower - II

Large house. Dated 1892. Hard red brick and stone dressings; hipped and gabled tiled roof; end and side stacks. Asymmetric entrance front of 2 storeys but dominated by a 3-storey circular tower built into right end; mock-machicolations under top storey and with dentilled eaves to conical roof; pointed arch casement windows around top stage, large- pane sashes below; the remainder of the front has a projecting 3-sided wing to the left, this and the tower flank a central recess of 3 windows, the 2 outer ranges both rise to dormer roofs, the right-hand a 3-sided bay; there is a slight central break, buttressed and with a low-relief oriel to the first floor of 2 pointed lights, corbelled and roofed in stone; the gable over-has verge parapets and a centre stack rising unusually over the line of the oriel. The main entrance below is set in a Tudor arch, deep reveal moulded and with columns; double panelled doors. The water tower of 3 stages (to the north) has a flat roof behind a parapet; the upper stages panelled, the lower with mock arrow loops and a Tudor-arched door. Interior: 2-storey stair hall, galleried and screened in carved cusped and moulded pine. Elaborate boarded timber floors.

Listing NGR: SK1887322726