Water House 200 Yards West of the Maltings is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1982. Water house.
Water House 200 Yards West of the Maltings
- WRENN ID
- rooted-span-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peterborough
- Constituency
- North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1982
- Type
- Water house
- OS grid reference
- TF 036 057
- Coordinates
- 52.63926, -0.46985
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Water House, located about 200 yards west of The Maltings, is a 19th-century water house built to supply water to Burghley House. It is a small building made of dressed stone, featuring a steeply pitched Collyweston stone roof with gabled ends. The end wall has a small depressed arch chamfered doorway, which is fitted with a boarded door that has ornate hinges. Above the doorway, there is a ventilation slit in the gable. There are no other openings in the building.
Local climate
Water House 200 Yards West of the Maltings 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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