Water Tower (Including Attached Engine House), 60 Metres South East of Sotterley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 March 1986. Water tower.
Water Tower (Including Attached Engine House), 60 Metres South East of Sotterley Hall
- WRENN ID
- drifting-storey-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 March 1986
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- TM 459 851
- Coordinates
- 52.40902, 1.61473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, which includes an attached engine house, is located 60 meters southeast of Sotterley Hall and dates from the late 19th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a pyramidal plain-tiled roof topped with a wind vane. The tower is square in shape and has pilaster strips at the corners, along with a corbelled brick band between each floor. The entrance consists of a semi-circular arched doorway with boarded doors. Each of the two main upper floors has a single semi-circular arched opening on the south and west sides only. Above these openings is a brick cornice, leading to a narrower stage that houses the water tanks. The attached engine house, built in the mid-19th century, is a single storey and also made of red brick, featuring rusticated quoins that match those of the Hall, and has a corrugated iron roof. Inside, there is a Lister oil engine.
Local climate
Water Tower (Including Attached Engine House), 60 Metres South East of Sotterley Hall receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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