12 Waterworks Road and Edgbaston Waterworks Tower

Tolkien's two towers in Ladywood.

Seen on the walk to Edgbaston Reservoir.

12 Waterworks Road - a boarded up lodge.

Edgbaston Waterworks Tower.

Grade II listed building

Edgbaston Waterworks

WATERWORKS ROAD
1.
5104
Edgbaston B16
Pumphouse and attached
storeroom, standby
generator room and
ornamented chimney stack
at Edgbaston Pumping
Station
SP 0488 SE 36/17 17.8.79
II
2.
C1870, by J H Chamberlain and W Martin. Polychrome brick; slate roof. Pumphouse.
Tall gabled building with 3 tall lancet windows and 4 trefoiled and gabled windows
in the roof. The entrance up steps and flanked by buttresses. Above, in the
gable, a roundel in a lancet head. Attached and to the right are 3 lower gabled
buildings, 2 of them now used as storerooms and the third as a standby generator
room. Their forebuildings all demolished and the exposed walls now painted At
the rear of the standby generator room stands the ornamented chimney stack. Square
in plan and with some Doric dressings. First stage with broad lancets; second
stage with 2 light Decorated style windows; third stage with single lancets with a
band of quatrefoils over; fourth stage with coupled Decorated style windows; there
a bracketed balcony with iron railings and an octagonal turret with lancets in
the sites and a truncated spire on top.

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Taken in: UK / England / Edgbaston (show map)

Taken on: February 4, 2023

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Grade II listed

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