Water Tower and Boundary Wall at Rufford Abbey is a Grade II listed building in the Newark and Sherwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1975. Water tower.
Water Tower and Boundary Wall at Rufford Abbey
- WRENN ID
- third-stronghold-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newark and Sherwood
- Constituency
- Sherwood Forest MP: Michelle Welsh (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1975
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower and Boundary Wall at Rufford Abbey, May Lodge Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 645 646
- Coordinates
- 53.17543, -1.03594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower at Rufford Abbey, built in the late 19th century by John Birch, is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings. It features a square plan and consists of five stages, each adorned with unglazed windows that have projecting ashlar architraves. A chamfered doorway is located on the north side. Each stage above the doorway has four windows. Adjacent to the tower is a single-storey, single-bay building made of dressed stone, which includes a doorway with a segmental head on the north side. The boundary wall, which is approximately 60 meters long, is made of irregularly coursed dressed stone and brick, topped with shaped ashlar coping, and has a semi-circular plan with two gateways.
Local climate
Water Tower and Boundary Wall at Rufford Abbey sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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