Listing Text

QUORN

SK 51 SE ROTHLEY LANE (Both Sides)
ROTHLEY
6/62
Draw-off tower, tunnel mouth,
dam causeway and bridge
at Swithland Reservoir Water
Works (that part in Quorn
Parish)

GV II

Draw-off tower, tunnel mouth, dam causeway and bridge of 1896. By Hawkesley
of London. Red brick, granite rubble stone and dressed stone. Draw-off
tower stands in reservoir cl5m off dam causeway. Causeway is S.E. of
filter beds and pumping house complex. Tower is of red brick in
Renaissance style on brick and stone plinth with stone dressings, frieze,
bracketted cornice and flat roof with stone balustraded parapet. 1
storey above water of square plan with octagonal stair turret half
projecting from right side and continuing above roof level as small
octagonal stone turret with dome and finial. Iron bridge leads across
from causeway to entrance door with stone surround and pediment. Transomed
1-light windows on sides. At the corners of the roof are stone piers
with carved obelisks on top. The balustrade in between is a row of small
arches of rusticated stonework, the same as that on tank and bridge (listed
separately). Lead water spouts on left and right sides. On opposite
side of the causeway is the almost round tunnel mouth for the draw-off
pipe. Rusticated stonework with stone coping and granite rubble stone
side embankments with stone coping. Causeway wall of granite rubble
stone with roadway between. Bridge at N. end of causeway carries road
over reservoir overflow stream. Three depressed arches, underside of
brick, with dressed rusticated stone edges, granite rubble stone sides
and parapet. Stone copings. Stone cut water system on reservoir side
with three cobbled stream beds continuing under bridge. Group value
with the other items at Swithland Reservoir Water Works.

Listing NGR: SK5574614860