Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Water Tower at Penylan Reservoir
Penylan, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Water Supply and Drainage
- Date of designation
- 12 October 2001
- Locality
- Penylan
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- Penylan
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.50594, -3.16229
- Cadw reference
- 25799
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Set back from the road opposite Penylan Oval.
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.
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.
Nearby in the register
- White Lodge CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garage, Gates & Garden Wall at White LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- White LodgeDomesticunder 1 mi
- Pen y lan Roman SiteSettlementunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.