Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1974. Water tower. 16 related planning applications.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- first-tower-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest
- Constituency
- New Forest West MP: Sir Desmond Swayne (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1974
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Osborne Road, New Milton
- OS grid reference
- SZ 244 951
- Coordinates
- 50.75577, -1.65503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower on Osborne Road in New Milton dates from the late 19th to early 20th century and is built of orange-red brick. It serves as a prominent landmark in the area. The tower features a corbelled, battlemented parapet and has a western staircase turret with window slits. A string course runs above the first floor, supported by angle buttresses that extend to the top of the parapet. The structure has four storeys, with generally paired windows on each face on the first and second floors, and three windows on the third floor. Brick dripstone moulds are present above the windows and doors.
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 16 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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