Water Tower

The water tower, built in 1881, is a Grade II listed structure located on Cemetery Road in Dereham. It is constructed of red brick with decorative polychrome blue and gault brick details, designed in the Italian Gothic style. The tower has a rectangular plan and stands three stories tall beneath a hipped roof.

The entrance features a battered plinth with a blue brick string course. Central to the entrance is a pair of boarded double doors set within a round arched opening, which is adorned with dentils and alternating blue and gault brick voussoirs, culminating in a pointed arch profile. The first floor showcases two angle pilasters and two central pilasters, each with dentil capitals, supporting three arches that also feature alternating blue and gault brick voussoirs. This level includes three cast iron casement windows with pointed heads, all set in segmental arched openings.

On the second floor, there are two string courses and one cast iron casement window. The tower is topped with a dentil cornice and an attic that has three raised panels and a machicolated string course above. The hipped roof is made of asbestos and includes a wooden and glazed louvre at the apex. The north and south sides of the tower each have one window on the first and second floors, along with two brick buttresses that have weathered offsets.

This water tower is one of only two surviving examples of its style and date in Norfolk.