Benfleet Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Castle Point local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1981. Water tower. 23 related planning applications.
Benfleet Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- grim-bronze-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Castle Point
- Constituency
- Castle Point MP: Rebecca Harris (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1981
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Benfleet Water Tower, Benfleet Road, SS7 1PW
- OS grid reference
- TQ 790 867
- Coordinates
- 51.55085, 0.58113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Former water tower, built around 1910. It is constructed of red and blue brick in a Romanesque style. The tower features crenellations and is panelled with stone coping and bands, along with parapet machiolations. It has a square plan and consists of three stages. Each face is supported by angle and centre pilaster buttresses, with blue brick buttresses on the first stage. There are two bays on each face, each containing a round-headed window on each stage, except for the ground floor, which has a matching doorway. The windows have blue brick arches, and there are bands at the impost and cill levels. The metal windows include glazing bars.
Local climate
Benfleet Water Tower receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 23 applications
- 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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