Water Tower About 100 Metres to Rear of Offices of Bass's Brewery is a Grade II listed building in the East Staffordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1979. Water tower.
Water Tower About 100 Metres to Rear of Offices of Bass's Brewery
- WRENN ID
- keen-tallow-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Burton and Uttoxeter MP: Jacob Collier (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1979
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- SK 252 229
- Coordinates
- 52.80339, -1.6269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, located about 100 meters behind the offices of Bass's Brewery, dates from 1866 and was formerly part of Bass's Old Brewery. It is a large structure made of red brick, rectangular in shape, and rises in five stages. The tower features stone stringcourses and has a semi-circular headed window with triple arched lights on each stage, except for the topmost stage, which has blind arches. This stage is adorned with a stone corbelled cornice and a stepped parapet that includes a tablet inscribed with the date of construction. There is a deeply recessed arched doorway on the west side.
Local climate
Water Tower About 100 Metres to Rear of Offices of Bass's Brewery receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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