Former Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1973. Water tower. 2 related planning applications.
Former Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- salt-bailey-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1973
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Former Water Tower, Madeira Road, New Romney, TN28 8QX
- OS grid reference
- TR 085 252
- Coordinates
- 50.98855, 0.97006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former water tower, dated 1890, is a tall, square building of six storeys constructed from red brick with brick and stone buttresses. An octagonal staircase turret rises from the fourth storey to the roof, featuring arrow slit windows. A crenellated parapet tops the structure. The tower has one or two windows on each side. Ground floor openings are casements. The first and second floors each feature a single three-light sash window; that on the second floor is set within a Tudor arched head. The third floor similarly contains a single three-light sash window. Originally, the fourth floor had a round window, but this has been filled with brickwork to create a small fixed window.
Local climate
Former Water Tower receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.4°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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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