Four-bed flat inside a 90ft tall water tower in Essex goes on sale for £2.1million

Benfleet Water Tower exterior
Fancy dwelling right here? (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

Consideration, all those that like their property porn with a little bit of spice.

Right here’s a dream house that’s a bit completely different from all of your common Victorian terraces or luxurious penthouses.

In Benfleet, Essex, sits a 90ft tall water tower, constructed in 1903.

As soon as upon a time, this tower was used for water storage.

Then, in 1957, it was taken out of motion, and has since been become a four-bedroom home unfold over six flooring.

And it’s now available on the market for £2.1million.

It retains a particular blue staircase from its working days – although an elevator is out there to assist with the 90-foot climb.

Benfleet Water Tower, view from the rooms
It affords nice views of the Essex countryside (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

A four-bed condo – unfold over the fourth, fifth and sixth flooring – affords panoramic views reaching so far as Tower Bridge and Southend Pier.

As you enter the fourth ground, you're led into the kitchen and diner, which has oak-fitted items and built-in home equipment, plus the dwelling area.

Up a spiral staircase is the principle bed room suite, full with a dressing room, plus a second bed room and a household lavatory.

Go up as soon as once more to the sixth ground and also you’ll discover the third bed room, plus one other room that could possibly be used as a fourth mattress or a house workplace.

Benfleet Water Tower entrance
The property is on sale for £2.1million (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

Benfleet Water Tower office space
That features three flooring of workplace area that you could possibly lease out, plus a four-bed condo (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

Benfleet Water Tower kitchen
On the fourth, fifth, and sixth flooring is the condo (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

All of those have nice views of the countryside, and beneath the condo bit is an workplace area that may be rented out by the brand new proprietor, positioned on the bottom, first, and second flooring.

Property agent Bradleys Countrywide, which is advertising the tower, predicts that the rented workplace area may earn £162,000 annually.

Jay Wainwright, supervisor at Bradleys Countrywide, stated: ‘We now have handled the Benfleet Water Tower for a few years, and we're delighted that the distributors have chosen Bradleys Countrywide as their brokers to market this distinctive property.

Benfleet Water Tower bedroom
There are 4 bedrooms to select from (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

Benfleet Water Tower bedroom
All have nice views from the tower (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

Benfleet Water Tower bathroom
Don’t fear, there’s a elevate to take you up the 90ft tower (Image: Bradleys Countrywide / SWNS)

‘This is among the most well-known and recognised buildings inside the Citadel Level space and affords a purchaser the prospect to personal a singular and prestigious constructing with such historical past.

‘The property produces a considerable rental earnings from workplace tenants on the bottom, first and second flooring and International Blu-chip communication corporations through the rooftop.

‘The penthouse condo has a surprisingly spacious really feel, and the views are as far-reaching as Tower Bridge.

‘Maybe the very best asset to the 90-foot-tall constructing is the elevate.’

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