Water Tower - Shooters Hill, South East London, UK - Octagon Buildings on Waymarking.com

The water tower is a Grade II listed building and the entry at the English Heritage website [visit link] tells us:

"1910. Octagonal Tower. Blank base of 2-storey height and 6 stages above (the 5th blank). Pointed, swept tiled roof with gabled dormers on alternate faces. Multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings. Wood and stone moulded main eaves cornice. Dormers have 3 stepped slit windows and red brick moulded eaves cornice. Top stage, of red brick, has 3 round arched openings to each face, with stone cills. Beneath this a blank stage with red brick arched corbelling and angle lesenes which merge with slightly projecting upper floor. Below this, each face has a 4-storey, long, round arched recess, defined in red brick, and within this on each floor, a round headed slit window. Recesses rest on red brick moulded and dentilled cornice of bottom stage. Plinth about 8 ft high with stone coping."

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