Water Tower, 50 Metres West of Orwell Park School is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Water tower.
Water Tower, 50 Metres West of Orwell Park School
- WRENN ID
- nether-step-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- TM 216 395
- Coordinates
- 52.01031, 1.22829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built around 1873, is located 50 metres west of Orwell Park School and was originally used to supply water for domestic purposes at Orwell Park. It stands approximately 20 metres tall and is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings. The tower features four stages. The base stage includes banded rusticated brickwork and has angle buttresses at the corners, each topped with a limestone urn finial. The second stage displays paired blind windows with semicircular heads on each face, along with less prominent angle buttresses at the corners that have fleur-de-lys finials. The third stage contains smaller paired windows and shallow clasping buttresses. The fourth stage is distinguished by a large single window with balustrading beneath it. The parapets are adorned with a moulded and dentilled cornice, and the open balustrading is finished with obelisk finials on the corner piers.
Local climate
Water Tower, 50 Metres West of Orwell Park School sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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