Tower House At Warley Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Water tower, house. 18 related planning applications.
Tower House At Warley Hospital
- WRENN ID
- fossil-floor-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Water tower, house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House at Warley Hospital is a water tower with an attached house, completed in 1885. It is constructed of red brick with a diaper pattern created by burnt headers, stone window and door dressings, and a tile roof. The building has a T-shaped plan. The tower, located at the western end and centrally positioned, is rectangular, four stories high, and features machicolations, a projecting parapet, and a conical roof. A doorway on the south side has a four-centred arched head and an independent stone hood over a boarded 19th-century door. The north and west faces of the tower have windows with similar arched heads, which are now boarded over. The first floor has deep, depressed arches with four-centered heads, containing mullioned and transomed windows, and paired lancet windows below. Above these arches, each face has a central slit vent on the two upper floors.
The attached house has a single-story and attic south elevation. A buttressed cross-wing extends eastward, featuring a crow-stepped gable. A ground-floor mullioned window of four lights is set under a molded four-centered arch. An attic gable window of two lights with a label molding is also present. To the west is a doorway with a four-centered arched head and a boarded door. A four-centered arched window is now boarded over. A wall with a parapet rises to the tower via crow-stepping. A dormer window is tile hung, and is also boarded over. The north elevation includes a 20th-century addition where the tower and house join. A centrally positioned dormer window is located behind the parapet, mirroring the one on the south elevation. A doorway and contiguous side windows, framed in square shapes, are now boarded over. A door has been cut into window framing. The eastern cross-wing is a 20th-century addition that matches the south gable's crow-stepping.
The east elevation of the cross-wing has a central, segment-headed doorway leading to a door of four panels: the upper two are glazed, and the lower two are flush with beaded edges. A small, adjacent, segment-headed window is boarded over. A central "dropped" dormer window has three casements with glazing bars, each subdivided into a 1x3 pane arrangement. A stone stack rises above, featuring an embattled upper section with recessed arched panels. On the north end of the range, there is 20th-century brickwork and iron-framed windows, two at ground floor level and one in the attic, all boarded over.
Tower House, along with Warley Hospital and The Lodge, form a group.
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