Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1991. Water tower. 1 related planning application.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- late-chapel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire MP: Jesse Norman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1991
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Broomy Hill, Hereford, HR4 0LQ
- OS grid reference
- SO 496 395
- Coordinates
- 52.05178, -2.73624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a water tower, dating to the later 19th century. It is constructed of polychrome brick, ashlar, and coursed rubble, with a lead roof. The base is of stone rubble and contains two fanlight casements set within polychrome brick semicircular arches, with ashlar springers and keyblocks. There is also a plank door and an ashlar semicircular arch. A battered ashlar plinth is present, and the returned east side has double doors, along with an inserted 20th-century casement.
The north and south frontages feature three tiers of paired windows, each set within a polychrome semicircular brick arch, with a central brick mullion and ashlar pilasters. A cornice runs along the top of this section, above semicircular polychrome arches containing herringbone panels. The tank storey is of yellow brick, featuring a machicolation, eaves cornice, and an arcaded parapet. The east and west frontages have a single tier of similar windows, but without the central pediment.
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
- 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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