Water Tower About 40 Metres West of the Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1987. Water tower.
Water Tower About 40 Metres West of the Stables
- WRENN ID
- scarred-ember-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1987
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- TM 102 718
- Coordinates
- 52.30424, 1.08217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, located about 40 meters west of the stables in Thornham Magna, dates from the late 19th century. It features a double skin of red brick with white brick facing on the upper stages and has a fishscale patterned slate roof. The tower is square in plan and consists of four tall stages plus an attic.
At the base, there is a recessed boarded door surrounded by outer English bond brickwork. Above this, two oculi are framed with chamfered gauged brick surrounds. The left side of the tower has a recessed sash window with a gauged brick flat arched head, and a small louvred opening above it. On the right side, there is a clock set in a chamfered gauged brick surround.
The upper water tank stage is adorned with a cornice and features two vertical openings on each side, along with recessed patterned boarding and outer chamfers. The pyramidal roof has cogged eaves that slightly splay at the base and is topped with timber French Renaissance style dormers on each face. An open traceried octagonal belfry and a leaded ogee cupola with a weathervane complete the structure.
Local climate
Water Tower About 40 Metres West of the Stables sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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