Water Tower at East Side of Junction with Cleanthus Road is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Water tower. 3 related planning applications.
Water Tower at East Side of Junction with Cleanthus Road
- WRENN ID
- other-roof-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Erith and Thamesmead MP: Ms Abena Oppong-Asare (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower at East Side of Junction with Cleanthus Road, Shooters Hill Se18, SE18 3DH
- OS grid reference
- TQ 437 764
- Coordinates
- 51.46899, 0.06848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built in 1910, is located on the east side of the junction with Cleanthus Road in Shooters Hill. It features an octagonal design with a blank base that rises to two storeys, followed by six stages above, with the fifth stage being blank. The tower is topped with a pointed, swept tiled roof that has gabled dormers on alternate faces. It is constructed from multicoloured stock brick with red brick dressings. The main eaves cornice is made of wood and stone moulding. The dormers include three stepped slit windows and have a red brick moulded eaves cornice.
The top stage, made of red brick, has three round arched openings on each face, each with stone cills. Below this is a blank stage featuring red brick arched corbelling and angle lesenes that merge with a slightly projecting upper floor. Each face of the tower has a four-storey, long, round arched recess defined in red brick, with a round-headed slit window on each floor within these recesses. The recesses are supported by a red brick moulded and dentilled cornice at the bottom stage. The tower stands on a plinth approximately 8 feet high, which has stone coping.
Local climate
Water Tower at East Side of Junction with Cleanthus Road 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 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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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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