Water Tower And Sun Room At Wappingthorn To The North East Of The House And To The North West Of The Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Horsham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1980. Water tower.
Water Tower And Sun Room At Wappingthorn To The North East Of The House And To The North West Of The Farm Buildings
- WRENN ID
- errant-stone-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Horsham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1980
- Type
- Water tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
STEYNING
957/13/168 HORSHAM ROAD 09-MAY-80 WATER TOWER AND SUN ROOM AT WAPPINGTHORN TO THE NORTH EAST OF THE HOUSE AND TO THE NORTH WEST OF THE FARM BUILDINGS
GV II
Ornamental water tower with sun room above. Circa 1930. Designed by Maxwell Ayrton for Sir Arthur Howard. built of exposed reinforced concrete in two feet six inch lifts, all exposed concrete bush hammered with copper roof. Tapering tower of four stagesd with polygonal roof and a five feet wide concrete external staircase. The two lower stages have pointed arched windows, the next stage includes the water tower and the top stage has a sun room with large casement windows to take advantage of both sun and views.
A most unusual concrete combined water tower and sun room by a notable practitioner of concrete used architecturally rather than just structurally and one of a series of pioneering concrete buildings built on the estate.
[Article by J Gilchrist Wilson in "Concrete Quarterly" Oct-Dec. 1964.]
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