Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1996. Water tower. 5 related planning applications.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- floating-baluster-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Suffolk Coastal MP: Jenny Riddell-Carpenter (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1996
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Priors Hill Road, Aldeburgh, IP15 5EP
- OS grid reference
- TM 460 565
- Coordinates
- 52.15251, 1.59542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built in 1870 for the municipal water works, is located on Priors Hill Road in Aldeburgh. It is constructed of gault brick with red brick details and features a rendered basement, with the roof not visible. The tower is square in plan and rises four storeys.
The first floor has two pairs of tall recessed blind arches, with a lower round-arched recess in between. The west side includes a door accessed by an external ladder staircase. Below the second floor, there are corbelled brick courses. The second floor features two groups of three arcaded round arches set in square-headed recesses, with some arches being blind and others containing casements. The top storey houses a water tank on brick corbelling and displays three blind recessed panels on each side, topped with a crenellated parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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