Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
25799
Building Number
80
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
12/10/2001
Date of Amendment
12/10/2001
Name of Property
Water Tower at Penylan Reservoir
Address
80 Cyncoed Road
Location
Unitary Authority
Cardiff
Community
Penylan
Town
Cardiff
Locality
Penylan
Easting
319428
Northing
179197
Street Side
E
Location
Set back from the road opposite Penylan Oval.
Description
Broad Class
Water Supply and Drainage
Period
History
Built c1898 by C.H. Priestley, engineer to Cardiff Corporation, and William Harper, borough engineer. The tower and covered reservoir are first shown on the 1901 Ordnance Survey.
Exterior
A square red-brick 2-stage tower with battered base below a freestone band, clasping buttresses, and freestone embattled parapet. In the base the front, facing Cyncoed Road, and rear have blocked round-headed doorways with impost bands. The rear has 2 superimposed round-headed windows in the tall lower stage (the lower window blocked). The side walls have tall narrow blind arches in the lower stage. In the upper stage the buttresses are corbelled out, and each face has 4 corbelled pilasters.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed as a rare surviving water tower associated with late C19 urban water supply, and as a prominent structure of distinctive character.
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