Below is a history of The Water Tower, written by the architect, Trevor Jones:

"The water tower was built in 1912. An unusual phased design was proposed compromising two towers and shared pump house. Only the smaller tower was built. The water tower was in use up to 1976, when, because of problems with the water source, it was replaced by the modern circular concrete tower in nearby Wooditton.

At this time Californian photographer / Apple software writer Bill Wright and his Iranian writer / potter wife Zara were looking for a building that could house two studios. In 1978, they applied for planning permission to convert the water tower into a residential building. Their architect was friend Michael Carapetian, an international architect who went to the AA and documented Pierre Chareau's 1927 La Maison de Verre in the early Sixties - which has influenced his work, now largely conservation-sensitive projects in Venice. Carapetian took a personal interest in the water tower, which  has an iconic Sixties-style conservatory (see Carapetian's axonometric above) including barrel vaults, spiral staircase and mezzanine connections. As well as being an architect, he is also an acclaimed architectural photographer and writer on architecture. Carapetian took the famous photograph 'The Man on the Economist Plaza' (Economist Building, Alison & Peter Smithson, 1964). According to David Gisson (in The Carapetian Effect, 2008): ' When most photographers were taking crisp photos of buildings with their characteristically strong shadows and deep perspective, Michael Carapetian demanded that architectural photography be filled with provocations and new ideas".

After the Wrights left the water tower was sold to the musician Roseanne Mark, who worked for the American rock band Dr. Hook. She used the tank space for her Sounds Around The Water Tower music class.

We [Trevor and Susan Jones] bought The Water Tower in 1985. Over the past 30 years, we have transformed the annexe and established the mature garden. Although we appreciated Carapetian's design philosophy of a machine-aesthetic intervention in an engineering building, we chose to complete the conversion by taking more heed of the architectural nature of the tower and the pump house. Last year, Carapetian, on seeing pictures of The Water Tower, said that we had turned it into a "romantic house". The final result is something truly unique, that no one person could have envisaged along, synthesising aspects of modern modern architecture and conservation architecture.

Susan describes the house as 'like living in a corner of paradise'. We love the setting, the views, the changing light and the big East Anglian skies".