
What is recorded here
Attached single-bay two-stage water tower, extant 1863, on a square plan. Now disused. Part creeper- or ivy-covered fine roughcast battered walls supporting weathervane finial-topped embossed cast-iron water tank on cut-granite "cornice". Paired round-headed (first stage) or single round-headed (second stage) window openings in round-headed recesses with cut-granite sills, and concealed red brick block-and-start surrounds having stepped reveals framing remains of four-over-four timber sash windows. Set in grounds shared with Edermine House.
An eye-catching water tower not only contributing positively to the group and setting values of the Edermine House estate, but also illustrating the continued development or "improvement" of the estate '[to] supply the entire concern with water [and drive a] waterwheel that turns the machinery of a powerful engine which performs various important functions including threshing and other valuable operations' (Lacy 1863, 473).
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Places near here
Edermine Housecountry house · 93 yd
Edermine Church (Edermine)graveyard/cemetery · 330 yd
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IndicatedHoly well · 946 yd
Black Castle (in ruins)Castle, tower house · 1249 yd
King's IslandIsland · 1.7 mi
CastleCastle, ringwork · 1.7 mi
National 1798 CentreMuseum · 3.0 mi
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