10 hidden gems of local UK architecture: readers’ travel tips

This eclectic pick, from the Outer Hebrides to East Sussex, celebrates unsung buildings spanning the centuries, simple and ornateBass Water Tower next to the Wash Lands in Burton upon Trent is a fine example of Victorian brewery architecture and an engineering feat in brickwork. Grade II-listed, it is an emblem of the town’s 19th-century heyday as the brewery centre of the world. Majestically rising above the skyline, it can clearly be seen when crossing over the old Trent Bridge. It is on