Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 August 1983. Water tower.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- waiting-balcony-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 August 1983
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Main Street, Leiston
- OS grid reference
- TM 444 626
- Coordinates
- 52.20741, 1.57587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former water tower, built around 1850, is now disused. It is constructed of brick and features a cast iron tank. On the east side, there is a semi-circular headed sash window, while the north side has a doorway with a 4-panel door and a semi-circular fanlight above it. The top section of the tower is adorned with two brick dentil courses. An engine house that was located immediately to the north of the tower was demolished in 1913.
Local climate
Water Tower 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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