TOWERING OPPORTUNITY IS ALMOST A LIQUID ASSET
T his six-bed property sounds like a normal abode with all the add-ons you might expect of a luxury home including a games room, gym, kitchen diner, two reception rooms and a landscaped garden.
But until 2004 Cromwell Tower was a water storage facility that was then decommissioned, sold at auction to the current owners and converted in 2016 into a home.
There’s plenty of its former role in evidence including a vertiginous central ironwork stairway, water depth gauges and exposed cement structure. The property includes four storeys of accommodation plus a top terrace and a tank room, which is currently unused and could also be converted into a cinema room or more bedrooms.
Built in 1930 in an art deco style, the 50ft-high tower includes a second-storey terrace behind its buttresses over which the next owner will be able to enjoy stunning views of the local area.
But the best vistas of the nearby Warwickshire countryside are available from its sixth floor, 7,535 sq ft rooftop terrace, which is covered in astro turf.
The property’s name comes from the arrival in 1649 of men loyal to Oliver Cromwell, who were given the task of tearing down a castle belonging to a royalist in nearby Kenilworth.
The men used stone from the castle to build houses in the area and named a local road after Cromwell, on which the tower stands. It’s for sale at £1.5 million.