The former derelict building has been sympathetically and painstakingly part converted into a home, with agreed plans, which will offer incredibly spacious accommodation and atmospheric living set across Five floors.
The first Three floors will provide Four grand sized bedrooms, each with substantially spacious en-suite bath and shower rooms. The Fourth floor is set aside, to create a maximum sized 25ft x 15ft ft open plan Lounge/Kitchen/Diner with an adjoining Utility room and Cloakroom.
Undoubtedly the highlight of the home is the Fifth and top floor, 25ft x 31ft Family room.
Flooded with natural light through panoramic windows to South and North Elevations, across open countryside and views over Dereham Town.
This incredible space has been fitted with a super-sized wood burning stove and an exceptionally large cathedral style glass ceiling lantern, which completes the ambience and natural light of the room.

The renovation and six figure conversion so far....

From the bottom up
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A significant amount of liaising and planning took place, before any works commenced on The Old Water Tower. The remit was to ensure that the heritage and character would be in keeping with Grade II listing requirements, whilst converting the building into an attractive, practical and comfortable family home to live in.
The work commenced with the removal of the 30,000 gallon, cast iron water tank, situated at the top of the building.
Dilapidated floors were removed and replaced with new wooden ones.
The ground floor was excavated with new footings and replaced with a concrete floor.
The entire roof was been replaced and laid with a high quality, quarry slate tiles, which are guaranteed for 100 years. The roof was then fully insulated with good quality thick insulated panels.
After much consultation with the council and meticulous planning, the owner managed to significantly increase the size and a bespoke one was created from in the same double glazed, galvanized steel as the newly fitted windows. An opening had to be cut into the roof for the lantern to sit in which was significant engineering feat. The results are dramatic.
The building itself has been internally re-modelled by removing and rebuilding brick walls, 3 new additional locations for windows were cut into the building to provide extra light, installing industrial sized structural steels, which have opened up the floor space, maximising the rooms’ sizes throughout. The old unsafe staircase has been removed, as has the dilapidated chimney breast, plastered walls and ceilings.
The exposed brick internal walls and giant existing steels, have been shot blasted and the steels have been resprayed and restored back to their original Victorian condition.
At significant cost, all original single glazed Crittall windows were replaced with double glazed, galvanised steel, which have been powder coated with the original green colour, found in the building, in keeping with its Grade II listing.
A stylish and attractive outsized wood burner has been installed on the top floor. This has been mounted on a reinforced concrete hearth/slab with laid porcelain tiles.
The old plastic guttering was replaced with new, in an aluminium colour to match the aluminium fascias. The lightening conductor and position of aerial were replaced and relocated.
This has completely transformed a dilapidated landmark, which is now a grand, modern open plan character home, rich in Victorian architecture and Industrial engineering elements. The internal space is as incredible as the views from the fifth floor.

The Current Situation
The owner has persevered tirelessly through many of the most difficult obstacles to bring this building to the market in such fine condition. The standard of the work, the passion and energy, which has driven the project through, will be reassuring for the fortunate buyer, who can take on the reins and an exciting challenge to refine the home, to their own exacting tastes.
We are looking for a particular kind of buyer for this once in a lifetime opportunity, a family with a passion for engineering, or architecture, or maybe just a special and unique forever home.
Equally this may be an ideal passion project for an engineer or architect or a developer looking to add to their portfolio of properties.
Please contact the branch directly for further details of the works remaining and to reserve your viewing time.

Outside

The home is enclosed by an original Victorian brick built wall and new fencing and wooden gates. There is a triangular shaped area to the rear of the building, which would make a nice low maintenance courtyard and patio. To the front there is a 55ft x 56ft area for a private driveway and garden.