Shooter's Hill Water Tower - South East London
N 51° 28.137 E 000° 04.108
31U E 296396 N 5706052
A gothic tower dominating the skyline.
Waymark Code: WMBBCQ
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/30/2011
Views: 9
The tower was built in 1906
and can be seen from miles around. The tower is a listed building and is
described as:
Octagonal Tower. Blank base
of 2-storey height and 6 stages above (the 5th blank). Pointed, swept tiled roof
with gabled dormers on alternate faces. Multicoloured stock brick with red brick
dressings. Wood and stone moulded main eaves cornice. Dormers have 3 stepped
slit windows and red brick moulded eaves cornice. Top stage, of red brick, has 3
round arched openings to each face, with stone cills. Beneath this a blank stage
with red brick arched corbelling and angle lesenes which merge with slightly
projecting upper floor. Below this, each face has a 4-storey, long, round arched
recess, defined in red brick, and within this on each floor, a round headed slit
window. Recesses rest on red brick moulded and dentilled cornice of bottom
stage. Plinth about 8 ft high with stone coping.
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