Wallasey Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Water tower. 1 related planning application.
Wallasey Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- muted-merlon-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wirral
- Constituency
- Wallasey MP: Dame Angela Eagle (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1988
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Wallasey Water Tower, Mill Lane, CH44 5UG
- OS grid reference
- SJ 305 917
- Coordinates
- 53.41784, -3.04586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wallasey Water Tower is a water tower, now used as a garage, that dates back to 1860, as indicated above its entrance. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has a square plan, rising five storeys in the Romanesque style. The base features battered rock-faced stone with a decorative band above. The round-headed entrance has stepped reveals and an arch, flanked by two round-headed lights on the returns. Clasping pilasters are present at the angles. The tower features giant arches with paired round-headed windows that have colonnettes with scalloped capitals and archivolts; the topmost pair includes a tympanum with a blind roundel. A Lombard frieze runs above the giant arch, topped by a cornice and a machicolated parapet. All sides of the tower are similar in design.
Local climate
Wallasey Water Tower 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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