Water Storage Tower in Courtyard on South East Side of Childwick Bury Manor is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Water tower.

Water Storage Tower in Courtyard on South East Side of Childwick Bury Manor

WRENN ID
winding-soffit-dust
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
St Albans
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Type
Water tower
Address
Water Storage Tower in Courtyard on South East Side of Childwick Bury Manor, Harpenden Road, St. Michael
OS grid reference
TL 139 102
Coordinates
51.77889, -0.34996
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The water storage tower, located in the courtyard on the southeast side of Childwick Bury Manor, was built in the late 18th century and is designed in a Gothic style. It is constructed from red brick with stone dressings and has a circular plan with a stone plinth. The tower is a single storey and features a doorway on the southeast side, which is framed by a large roll-moulded surround with an ogee head and a cusped tympanum above it. There is a stone band at the first floor level, and the flanking walls are adorned with deep stone quatrefoil openings. Below these openings, the plinth rises to form round stone spouts.

Local climate

Water Storage Tower in Courtyard on South East Side of Childwick Bury Manor 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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