Railings to Water Reservoir is a Grade II listed building in the Camden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 January 1999. Railings.

Railings to Water Reservoir

WRENN ID
low-mortar-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Camden
Constituency
Hampstead and Highgate MP: Tulip Siddiq (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 January 1999
Type
Railings
Address
Railings to Water Reservoir, Upper Terrace
OS grid reference
TQ 262 861
Coordinates
51.56043, -0.17953
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The railings surrounding the water reservoir were built in 1856 for the New River Company. They are made of cast iron and feature urn finials and secondary lower rails, with larger finials at every seventeenth upright. A moulded kerb of cast iron sits above a brick plinth. The reservoir was constructed to supply water to Hampstead, with water being piped in from Highgate. The New River Company was absorbed into the Metropolitan Water Board in 1902.

Local climate

Railings to Water Reservoir sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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