This old building at the top of Conduit Road is at the south east corner of Albert Park. It is far older than the victorian park, and the large victorian houses that surround the park. In the early 19th century it stood in a large field named Conduit field. Some small springs from the field were tapped and the water collected here in what was a forerunner of our huge modern resrvoirs. It housed a cistern where clean water could be stored, and then piped down a conduit to the people of Ock Street. Conduit House is probably much older than Abingdon’s charter being mentioned in the Amyce town survey of 1554, and may have been built by the monks of the Abbey.