When Sir Christopher Wren’s servant went to rouse his master from an afternoon nap on 25 February 1723, and found that the old man would never wake again, the reputation of the nation’s greatest architect was already on the wane. He had walked away from St Paul’s in a fit of pique, with the cathedral
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The water tower before renovation. (Image: Channel 4)
The original water tower, which Mr Del Tufos described as a “square concrete box on long spindly legs”, could hold 20,000 gallons in the tank. The tank now contains three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
The part of the building sitting between the legs of the original water tower, has a kitchen/breakfast room, dining room and sitting room, with a utility room and toilet on the floor below the main living space.
The home has zoned underfloor heating, solid oak flooring, exposed steel beams and ceramic flagstones.
The kitchen (Image: Channel 4)
The dining room (Image: Channel 4)