The Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Ealing local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 1972. Tower. 1 related planning application.

The Water Tower

WRENN ID
stranded-wicket-storm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ealing
Constituency
Ealing Southall MP: Deirdre Costigan (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 October 1972
Type
Tower
Address
The Water Tower, the Crescent, UB1 1QU
OS grid reference
TQ 124 797
Coordinates
51.50594, -0.38116
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Water Tower is a late 19th-century structure located in The Crescent, Southall. It is built of red brick and features a four-stage hexagonal design. Each face of the tower has two windows, with three windows on the top floor, all adorned with drip moulds above them. The tower includes vestigial corner turrets and a stair turret on one side. Notable architectural elements include machicolations and a battlemented parapet.

Local climate

The Water Tower 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 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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