Water Tower to South East of Hexham Railway Station is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1988. Water tower.
Water Tower to South East of Hexham Railway Station
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1988
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower to South East of Hexham Railway Station, Station Road
- OS grid reference
- NY 940 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97293, -2.09429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built in the 1850s by Peter Tate, is located to the southeast of Hexham Railway Station. It features a coursed, tooled sandstone base and a galvanised iron tank that replaced the original cast iron tank. The structure is designed in a classical style and has a stone base that is one and a half storeys high, with a layout of two by three bays. The south front displays two keyed moulded arches, with moulded inposts positioned between square angle piers that have higher capitals. A moulded cornice runs along the top. The half-storey, constructed of large main sandstone blocks, was added later to increase the height. The side elevations consist of three bays, while the rear has two bays and are simpler in design, featuring tooled and margined pilasters with moulded capitals. All elevations have openings that are now filled with herringbone-tooled sandstone. Above the base, there is a panelled tank.
Local climate
Water Tower to South East of Hexham Railway Station receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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