Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Fenland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1992. Water tower.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- hollow-doorway-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Fenland
- Constituency
- North East Cambridgeshire MP: Steve Barclay (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1992
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Whitemoor Marshalling Yard, March
- OS grid reference
- TL 412 990
- Coordinates
- 52.57096, 0.08346
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower at Whitemoor Marshalling Yard is a late 19th-century railway structure. It is built of red brick in English bond with ashlar dressings and features a welded steel tank. The tower has a rectangular plan and its sides display blind arcades, with one bay on the north and south sides and two bays on the east and west sides. Tall round arches with plain stone imposts characterize the design. The east and west arches contain large segmentally arched windows with cast-iron frames and glazing bars, where the center panes can pivot open. Above, there is a brick cornice topped by a large rectangular welded steel tank, likely a replacement for the original. The interior has not been inspected.
Historically, March served as a passenger interchange point, while Whitemoor Yard was a significant freight marshalling center that underwent substantial modernization in 1925 by the London and North Eastern Railway, covering an area of 68 acres.
Local climate
Water Tower 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 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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