Garthamlock Water Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 October 2013. Water tower. 4 related planning applications.

Garthamlock Water Tower

WRENN ID
hidden-flint-linden
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 October 2013
Type
Water tower
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Two large, circular-plan, reinforced-concrete water towers of similar design but contrasting height. Prominently located, adjacent to one another, on high ground in a suburban housing setting to the east side of Glasgow.

GARTHAMLOCK WATER TOWER: design by Frank A Macdonald and Partners for Glasgow Corporation, 1953-56. Built by Holst and Company Ltd, 1956-58. 24 laterally unsupported cylindrical columns, 100ft in height. 23ft cylindrical tank with 7 equally spaced band courses. 1 million gallon capacity. Hexagonal-plan central access column with moulded margins to openings (currently infilled, 2012). Metal door to ground and internal metal stairs rising to roof-top.

CRAIGEND WATER TOWER: Lower Clyde Water Board, c.1966. 12 fin-like supporting columns 40ft in height and tapering toward ground. Cylindrical tank with 4 equally spaced band courses; regularly disposed rectangular insets to lower course. Panelled, dodecagonal (12-sided) central column. Metal access door to ground; internal stair rising to roof-top.

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