Information for record number MWA3390:
Possible Water Tower, Barby Road, Rugby

Summary The possible site of a water tower which was in use during the Imperial period. The water tower is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1905. It was situated at Barby Road, Rugby.
What Is It?  
Type: Water Tower
Period: Imperial - Industrial (1751 AD - 1913 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Rugby
District: Rugby, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 50 73
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 Water tower, Barby Road. The Illustrated London News in 1852 call it 'in the Italian style'. Yellow brick, but the top bands of white and blue tiles and a roof indeed of the Italian villa type.
2 Treen also finds the building notable calling it 'a fine square building'.
3 Shown as a Water tower on the 1905 25" OS map.
4 On visiting the site no Water tower was found but a one storey yellow brick warehouse building in a style similar to the above description. This was in a very bad state of repair and adjacent piles of rubble suggested that adjoining buildings had been demolished, amongst these was presumably the Water tower.
 
Sources
Source No: 1
Source Type: Bibliographic reference
Title: The Buildings of England: Warwickshire
Author/originator: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A
Date: 1966
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Volume/Sheet: Warwicks
   
Source No: 3
Source Type: Map
Title: 1:2500 1905
Author/originator: Ordnance Survey
Date: 1905
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Volume/Sheet:
   
Source No: 4
Source Type: Site Visit
Title: SMR Card
Author/originator: Kilburn C
Date: 1983
Page Number:
Volume/Sheet: PRN 3397
   
Source No: 2
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Walks In and Around Rugby
Author/originator: Treen A E
Date: 1923
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Volume/Sheet:
   
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source SMR Card Sites and Monuments Record Card. The Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record began to be developed during the 1970s. The details of individual archaeological sites and findspots were written on record cards. These record cards were used until the 1990s, when their details were entered on to a computerised system. The record cards are still kept at the office of the Warwickshire Sites and Monuments Record. back
period Imperial 1751 AD to 1914 AD (end of the 18th century AD to the beginning of the 20th century AD)

This period comes after the Post Medieval period and before the modern period and starts with beginning of the Industrial Revolution in 1750. It includes the second part of the Hannoverian period (1714 – 1836) and the Victorian period (1837 – 1901). The Imperial period ends with the start of the First World War in 1914.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument BUILDING * A structure with a roof to provide shelter from the weather for occupants or contents. Use specific type where known. back
monument PILE * Component: Use wider site type where known. back
monument WAREHOUSE * A building or part of a building used for the storage of goods or merchandise. Use more specific type where known. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument INDUSTRIAL * This is the top term for the class. See INDUSTRIAL Class List for narrow terms. back
monument WALK * A place or path for walking in a park or garden. Use more specific type where possible. back
monument WATER TOWER * A tower serving as a reservoir to deliver water at a required point. back
monument VILLA * A term for a type of house, with varying definitions according to period. Roman villas were high-status and usually associated with a rural estate, whereas Georgian and later period villas were often semi-detached, town houses. back
monument SQUARE * An open space or area, usually square in plan, in a town or city, enclosed by residential and/or commercial buildings, frequently containing a garden or laid out with trees. back

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