Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1984. Water tower. 6 related planning applications.

Water Tower

WRENN ID
silent-plinth-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1984
Type
Water tower
Source
Historic England listing

Description

1. 1067 TF 91 SE 1/104

DEREHAM CEMETERY ROAD (East Side) Water Tower

II

2. Watertower. 1881. Red brick with polychrome blue and gault brick dressings in Italian Gothic style. Rectangular plan. 3 stories with hipped roof. Entrance front has battered plinth with blue brick string course. Central boarded double doors in round arched opening with dentils and alternating blue and gault brick voussoirs; pointed head to outer profile of arch. First floor with 2 angle and 2 central pilasters with dentil capitals carrying 3 arches with alternating blue and gault brick voussoirs; 3 cast iron casement windows with pointed heads in segmental arched openings. Second floor with 2 string courses and 1 cast iron casement window. Dentil cornice. Attic with 3 raised panels and machiciolated string course above. Hipped asbestos roof with wooden and glazed louvre on apex. North and south returns with 1 window to 1st and 2nd floor levels and 2 brick buttress with weathered offsets. One of two surviving town watertowers of its style and date in Norfolk. Kelly's Directory Norfolk (1916) 110.

Listing NGR: TF9911214217

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