Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1985. Water tower. 1 related planning application.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rampart-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Garston MP: Maria Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1985
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Reservoir Road
- OS grid reference
- SJ 419 873
- Coordinates
- 53.38012, -2.87429
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built around 1900, is constructed from rock-faced stone and features an iron top. It has a battered base that includes a round-headed window and an architraved entrance set within a projecting surround with a pediment on the east side. The design includes paired round-headed lancet windows and a corbelled cornice. The upper stage, made of iron, has flat pilasters and four paired round-headed recesses, topped with a consoled cornice and a handrail.
Local climate
Water Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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