Gorsehill Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1988. Water tower. 9 related planning applications.

Gorsehill Water Tower

WRENN ID
grey-postern-myrtle
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
Gorsehill Water Tower, Gorsehill Road, CH45 9JA
OS grid reference
SJ 303 935
Coordinates
53.43393, -3.0494
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gorsehill Water Tower is a stone water tower built between 1902 and 1905. It features an octagonal shape with a flanking octagonal turret. The base is battered and rusticated, with angle pilaster strips. The tower has a corbelled cornice and a top stage that includes a cornice, a deep parapet, and a double-stepped embattled parapet. The turret is similar in design but taller. The entrance is round-headed and consists of two orders with paired four-panel doors. There are tall paired round-headed lights with roll-moulded surrounds and two rusticated panels. The top stage has three round-headed openings supported by Ionic colonettes. The turret includes a blocked round-headed entrance and two round-headed windows.

Local climate

Gorsehill 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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