Water Tower, 135m north-east of Lytes Cary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Water tower.

Water Tower, 135m north-east of Lytes Cary

WRENN ID
iron-arch-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Country
England
Type
Water tower
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The water tower, built around 1934 for Sir Walter Jenner, is located 135 meters northeast of Lytes Cary. Constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, it features an internal brick facing and is topped with a conical roof made of stone slates.

The tower has a circular plan and includes a base plinth and four offset buttresses that rise nearly to the full height of the wall, along with an eaves cornice. Each buttress is capped with two dressed Ham stone stones. On the east side, which faces away from the house, there is a boarded and studded oak door. To the right of the door is a three-light casement window with leaded lights, both set in voussoired segmental-arched openings. The roof is topped with a timber and stone conical upstand for birds, supported by timber columns that create an opening into the roof, and is crowned with a weathervane shaped like a galloping horse.

The interior was not inspected in 2013, but it is noted that the walls are faced with limewashed brick, and the concrete floor has several holes and channels. The roof space features a timber boarded floor and contains a 30,000 litre concrete water tank, which is supported by two concrete beams and supplied by a borehole. The roof structure is supported by an oak wallplate and consists of principal rafters, purlins, and common rafters.

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