Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works is a Grade II* listed building in the St. Helens local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Glass house.

Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works

WRENN ID
first-lime-auburn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
St. Helens
Constituency
St Helens South and Whiston MP: Ms Marie Rimmer (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1985
Type
Glass house
Address
Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works, 9, Watson Street
OS grid reference
SJ 512 950
Coordinates
53.44963, -2.73606
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a tank house located beside the canal at the Crown Glass Works, constructed in 1883. It is made of brick and features a slate roof, presenting a rectangular gabled shape. The east facade is characterized by weathered buttresses positioned between deep battered buttresses, while the west facade shows the truncated remains of similar deep battered buttresses. The south gable end has blocked segmental headed windows above a large entrance, along with a blocked round window in the gable. An oval cone rises through the roof. A plaque on the building notes that the first glass tank began operation here in 1887. Although the interior was not inspected, it is reported to contain cast iron columns that support the cone and the former Siemens reverberatory tank furnace.

Local climate

Tank house, beside canal at Crown Glass Works sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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