Retaining Wall to Covered Reservoir at Water Works is a Grade II listed building in the Liverpool local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Retaining wall.
Retaining Wall to Covered Reservoir at Water Works
- WRENN ID
- crooked-ember-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Liverpool
- Constituency
- Liverpool Riverside MP: Kim Johnson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Retaining wall
- Address
- Retaining Wall to Covered Reservoir at Water Works, Hodson Place
- OS grid reference
- SJ 360 918
- Coordinates
- 53.41953, -2.96362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The retaining wall to the covered reservoir at the waterworks was built in 1854 and designed by T. Duncan. It is constructed from snecked stone and extends approximately 95 meters along Hodson Place, featuring a round turret at the east end and an octagonal turret at the west end. The wall then continues south for 53.5 meters. It has a battered base with roll moulding above and a coped parapet.
Local climate
Retaining Wall to Covered Reservoir at Water Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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