Survey Data
Reg No
31207019
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Building misc
Date
1890 - 1900
Coordinates
137376, 299879
Date Recorded
04/08/2011
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding single-bay single-stage water tower, commissioned 1895; extant 1895, on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1975[?]. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered tuck pointed coursed or snecked rock faced limestone walls with drag edged rock faced cut-limestone flush quoins to corners supporting cast-iron water tank on dragged cut-limestone thumbnail beaded "cornice". Round-headed door opening (north-east) with overgrown threshold, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surround with timber boarded or tongue-and-groove timber panelled double doors now boarded up. Segmental-headed window opening (south-west) with drag edged cut-limestone sill, and drag edged rock faced cut-limestone block-and-start surround with no fittings surviving. Set on overgrown tarmacadam platform in grounds shared with Swinford Railway Station.
Appraisal
A water tower contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Swinford Railway Station complex.