The Water Tower, Kenilworth (Q16897622)

  • matcher place: Kenilworth (relation 3383548)
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  • Wikipedia: English
  • English Wikipedia categories: Houses in Warwickshire, Industrial buildings in England, Infrastructure completed in the 18th century, Kenilworth, Towers completed in the 18th century, Water towers in the United Kingdom, Windmills in Warwickshire
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Water Tower is a building in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England. It is understood that the building was constructed as a windmill in the mid-18th century by Joseph Lee of Warwick, described as Gentlemen and John Lamb of Warwick, Haberdasher. There is evidence of a sale in 1778 of the Mill as a going concern. The building continued to be used as a working windmill until 1854 when steam power was introduced. In 1885 the mill machinery was removed and the building converted into a water tower. This involved the doubling of the height of the brickwork and surmounting it with a 26,000-gallon iron tank. This became the town's first Waterworks and provided most of Kenilworth's water supply until 1939. The supply from this tank was in fact in use for auxiliary purposes until approximately 1964. In 1970 Kenilworth Urban District Council, anxious to ensure the preservation of such an important and historic landmark, offered it for sale by tender on condition that it should be sympathetically restored and converted for use as a private dwelling house. Plans submitted by the architect, Mr Edward Byron of Leamington Spa, on behalf of Lt Col Michael Wheat, were accepted and a conversion was commenced in late 1972 and completed in 1974. This imaginative conversion incorporates a new ground floor extension cleverly designed to harmonise with the character. The tower and the whole now forms a unique and comfortable home successfully linking the past with the present.

Wikidata location: 52.3524, -1.5761 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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Houses in Warwickshire building=country_house, historic=manor
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Water towers in the United Kingdom man_made=tower, building=tower, man_made=water_tower
Windmills in Warwickshire man_made=windmill