Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Reading local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1978. Water tower. 12 related planning applications.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- outer-mortar-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Reading
- Constituency
- Reading Central MP: Matt Rodda (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1978
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Bath Road, RG1 6PG
- OS grid reference
- SU 702 727
- Coordinates
- 51.44948, -0.99016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built around 1870, is a large two-stage square structure made of red brick, featuring grey brick bands at various intervals. These bands are decorative at the impost and top levels, and the tower has a cogged and moulded bracket cornice at the blocking course. Each side of the tower has three tall lancet windows with grey and red brick voussoirs, and there are stone keyed oculi above each window.
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 12 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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