Brick Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1978. Water tower.
Brick Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- standing-paling-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Goole and Pocklington MP: David Davis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1978
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Brick Water Tower, Lower Bridge Street, Goole
- OS grid reference
- SE 741 234
- Coordinates
- 53.7023, -0.87842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The brick water tower, built in 1885, is located on Lower Bridge Street in Goole. It is constructed of red brick in English bond and features a sheet metal dome and a cast-iron water tank. The tower is cylindrical, standing approximately 43 metres high and 10 metres in diameter.
The bottom stage of the tower serves as a deep plinth and contains a west entrance, which has a round-headed opening with a raised round-chamfered surround and a sheet metal door with five chamfered orders. The tall second stage features a fluted shaft with recessed panels that step in at both the top and bottom. This stage has five tiers, each with four slit lights, and is topped with a corbelled brick cornice.
The drum-shaped top stage includes a plain plinth, four slit lights, a plain raised brick frieze, a moulded ashlar cornice, a rounded ashlar blocking course, and the dome. This water tower has been superseded by a nearby reinforced concrete water tower built in 1927 and is no longer in use.
Local climate
Brick Water Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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