Watertower and Flanking Coach Houses, 320 Metres East of Medina Rajneesh is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 October 1984. Watertower.
Watertower and Flanking Coach Houses, 320 Metres East of Medina Rajneesh
- WRENN ID
- rooted-pillar-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 October 1984
- Type
- Watertower
- OS grid reference
- TL 719 709
- Coordinates
- 52.31014, 0.52077
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The watertower and flanking coach houses, located 320 metres east of Medina Rajneesh, were built around 1907 to serve Herringswell Manor, the estate of A.W. Ballance. The lower part of the watertower is made of red brick and features a grand central entrance gateway with a moulded and hood-moulded 4-centred arched opening made of terracotta, which has a pair of boarded doors. Above this entrance is a 4-light window with leaded casements. The upper part of the tower, which overhangs on all four sides, has exposed joist-ends and diagonal beams supported by brackets, with walling and gables constructed of half-timbering and rough-cast infill. The roof is a swept pyramid shape with two stages, topped by a set-forward gable that frames a clock with a bell above, and it is finished with a weather-vane finial. The flanking coach houses have gable fronts and similar arched doorways. This structure is included for its group value. The timber-framed and weather-boarded ranges at the rear are not of special interest.
Local climate
Watertower and Flanking Coach Houses, 320 Metres East of Medina Rajneesh sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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