Park Hill Water Tower (In Park Hill Recreation Ground) is a Grade II listed building in the Croydon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1970. A C19 Water tower. 1 related planning application.
Park Hill Water Tower (In Park Hill Recreation Ground)
- WRENN ID
- solemn-pilaster-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South MP: Chris Philp (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 August 1970
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Park Hill Water Tower (In Park Hill Recreation Ground), CR0 5SX
- OS grid reference
- TQ 330 650
- Coordinates
- 51.3685, -0.09001
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Park Hill Water Tower, located in Park Hill Recreation Ground, was built in 1867. It is a circular structure made of brown brick, featuring red brick bands. The tower has four main stages. The lowest stage includes one round-headed doorway adorned with brick-on-edge ornament and small pointed windows. The two stages above also have similar windows. The upper stage is decorated with a band of brick trefoil ornament above a tall brick interlaced arcade. Additionally, there is a small bartizan turret on the south side of the tower.
Local climate
Park Hill Water Tower (In Park Hill Recreation Ground) 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 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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