Local List: Water Tower, Upland Road, West Mersea (DCC26106)

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Authority Colchester Borough Council
Date assigned 24 August 2020
Date last amended

Description

Built in 1924 in the campanile style with the tower in multi-colour bricks and with a blue brick plinth. The iron tank is painted red oxide colour having a copper-covered pavilion roof with a wooden turret, itself having a copper covered pavilion roof with weathervane on the apex. Elevations are symmetrical except for the addition of a door in the east and west elevations. Window openings have all been bricked in and have half-round gauged arches in rubbed bricks. A number of communication antennae have been attached at tank level. The structure was adopted onto the Local List by the Local Plan Committee on 24/08/20. A good architectural example of its type and locally important structure.

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  • Photograph: Tipper, Jess. 2020. Digital photographs of Water Tower, Upland Road, West Mersea. Digital.

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Location

Grid reference Centred TM 0122 1313 (8m by 8m)
Map sheet TM01SW
County ESSEX
Civil Parish WEST MERSEA, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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Record last edited

Sep 3 2020 7:20AM

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