Water Tower South of Central Station is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Water tower.

Water Tower South of Central Station

WRENN ID
muffled-glass-winter
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newcastle upon Tyne
Constituency
Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Water tower
Address
Water Tower South of Central Station, Forth Street
OS grid reference
NZ 245 637
Coordinates
54.96749, -1.61755
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The water tower south of Central Station in Newcastle upon Tyne is a Grade II listed structure, dated 1891 according to a plaque on the tank. It was built for the North Eastern Railway and features rockfaced sandstone with ashlar dressings, along with an iron tank. The tower stands three storeys tall with five bays and has a tank on top. It has flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills for the mullioned-and-transomed windows on the ground and first floors, while the second-floor windows are round-headed and set under stone arches with similar sills. The tower is topped with a moulded cornice, and there are chimney stacks on the returns with high corniced chimneys, featuring square yellow pots on the right. The tank itself is approximately 2 meters high and has the same dimensions as the building.

Local climate

Water Tower South of Central Station receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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