Description

WEST HILL ROAD
1.
5123 Bailey Hill Water
Tower
TL 0920 4/3
II

2.
1901. Bold Arts and Crafts design comparable with work of Townsend. Design
consultant Henry T Hare. Luton grey bricks, stone dressings. Square plan
on splayed plinth with stone mouldings, and rounded demi tower at each corner,
the north-west one forming stair tower with narrow slit casement windows.
The north face has a low broad round arched deeply recessed ground floor entrance
in stone. On other 3 faces at first floor level is a single round headed
mullioned and transomed window, with iron glazing bars, quoining and splayed
cill. At upper level all four faces have a pair of 2 light mullioned windows
with iron glazing bars. Above these, each face has a heavy rectangular stone
balcony supported on three pairs of brackets and with a projecting spout at
each end. Above the balcony, a broad round headed arch springs from the demi
towers to form a recess, within which a central door surmounted by a tripartite
keystone gives access to the balcony and is flanked on either side by 4 casements
windows with iron glazing bars. Upper section of tower decorated with stone
bands of various widths. Pyramidal roof of stone slates with deeply projecting
eaves, a winged figure acting as a corbel or bracket support at each of the
four corners. Small hipped dormer to each face of roof. Built to supply
water to Stopsley after the drought of 1898. (W Austin, Luton and Its Hamlets,
1928, II p 213).

Listing NGR: TL0920120067

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26607260

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)