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water tower — Hampstead Avenue

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water tower — Hampstead Avenue
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Freestanding four-stage water tower, built c. 1880, now in use as house. Single-storey gabled projection to southeast, extended to southwest and having single-storey lean-to extension. Flat leaded roof to tower over corniced metal water tank. Pantile roofs to extensions, with replacement uPVC gutters and pierced bargeboards and finial on profiled timber brackets. Brown stock brick walls laid in English garden wall bond with red brick banding over painted masonry plinth to tower and projection; painted roughcast walls to extensions. Square-headed window openings to tower, with stepped brick reveals, granite sills and replacement uPVC windows; round-headed window to southwest gable of projection, similarly detailed. Square-headed replacement diagonally-battened door to extension. Located on north side of Hampstead Estate.

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