Description

SJ 3490 SW WATER STREET
(north side)
L2

7/1337 No. 22
(Tower Building)
14.3.75.
G.V. II*

Includes 1-11 (odd) Tower Gardens. Office Building with
shopping arcade. 1906. Aubrey Thomas. 5 storeys and
atics; 3 bays and curved corner bays, 9 bays to the Strand
of 8 storeys. Steel frame with grey granite and white
faience cladding, granite ground floor. Bays divided by
polygonal turrets. All windows have mullions and are of
5:4:5 lights, those to ground floor with a 1st floor oriel
bay and balcony over a double portal of round arches.
Cornice and balustrade, balustrades to attics with scrolls.
Strand facade similar, centre and end bays with full-height
canted oriels over round-headed arches, that to left leading
to Tower Gardens, that to centre leading to arcade,
segmental headed 3-light windows. Recessed top storey with
parapet. End tower of 2 storeys, coner turrets and
parapet, centre tower octagonal of 3 storeys, corner
turrers. One of the 1st steel framed buildings in the
country.

Listing NGR: SJ3399590439

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Tower Building at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7829642

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)