Water Works Meter House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. Meter house. 6 related planning applications.
Water Works Meter House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-cloister-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Meter house
- Address
- Water Works Meter House, Church Wood Avenue
- OS grid reference
- SE 272 371
- Coordinates
- 53.82991, -1.58729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Water Works Meter House is a meter house built between 1905 and 1912, designed in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed of rock-faced ashlar and features a grey slate roof. This tall single-storey building is located against the side of the filtration reservoir. It has a central porch with a pointed arch and paired board doors, along with a cornice and blocking course. On either side of the porch are flanking arched 2-light windows with hoodmoulds. The building is supported by angle buttresses and has moulded stone brackets that hold up a deep blocking course with arched recesses. The hipped roof is topped with a glazed ventilation canopy and iron finials. The interior has not been inspected. The building was constructed during a time when the number of filter beds in Headingley was increasing, indicating its significance in the water treatment process for the area. Water was supplied to the town by gravitation or through the North Lane Pumping Station in Headingley.
Local climate
Water Works Meter House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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