Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 October 2001. Water tower.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- iron-vestry-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 October 2001
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Woodlands Road, Adisham
- OS grid reference
- TR 209 534
- Coordinates
- 51.23726, 1.16351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a water tower, constructed in 1903 for the Margate Corporation District Waterworks, designed in the Edwardian Italianate Revival style. It is a rectangular structure with two stages, made of red brick and terracotta, featuring an iron water tank. The lower stage includes pilasters with banded rustication and open arcading with round arches, each adorned with stone keystones and terracotta decoration above. There is a stone panel displaying the date and the name of the waterworks. The shorter sides have one arch, while the longer sides have three. A moulded stringcourse separates the two stages. The upper stage mirrors the lower but lacks the rustication and has a deep eaves cornice supported by brackets. This cornice holds a walkway, which is surrounded by decorative iron railings, encircling the panelled iron tank. The tank is inscribed with "Erected by Newton Chambers and Co, Thorncliffe Ironworks Sheffield 1903."
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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