Boilerhouse and Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Blaby local planning authority area, England. Boilerhouse, water tower. 1 related planning application.
Boilerhouse and Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- little-string-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blaby
- Constituency
- South Leicestershire MP: Alberto Costa (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Boilerhouse, water tower
- Address
- Boilerhouse and Water Tower, the Drive, Countesthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SP 569 956
- Coordinates
- 52.55553, -1.1611
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The boilerhouse and water tower were built in 1884 for the Countesthorpe cottage homes by the Leicester Poor Law Union, designed by architect I. Baradale. Constructed of brick with Welsh slate roofs, the tower is a tall brick structure featuring stone corbels that support brick machicolations. It is topped with a pyramidal slate roof that has wide overhanging eaves. Next to the tower are the former boilerhouse and coal stores, which have been altered but still retain their original form. These buildings include several decorative features, such as patterned cast iron grilles and a circular lantern topped with an ogee cupola and crucifix.
Local climate
Boilerhouse and Water Tower receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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