Water House is a Grade II listed building in the Rushcliffe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1987. Water house.
Water House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-vault-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rushcliffe
- Constituency
- Rushcliffe MP: James Naish (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1987
- Type
- Water house
- Address
- Water House, Ash Lane, East Leake
- OS grid reference
- SK 567 284
- Coordinates
- 52.85032, -1.15883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water House is an early 18th-century water house, designed and built for Sir Thomas Parkyns of Bunny Hall. It features red brick with some blue brick chequering and has a rubble plinth. The building has a pantile roof and brick coped gables with kneelers. It is a single storey plus garret and consists of a single bay. The east side has a segmental arched doorway with a wooden door and an opening for a water course underneath. There is a blocked slit ventilator in the garret. The west side has a small blocked segmental arched opening at ground level, and there is also a blocked slit ventilator in the garret.
Local climate
Water House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% 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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