Shiplake College, Water Tower Approximately 90 Metres North West is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Water tower.
Shiplake College, Water Tower Approximately 90 Metres North West
- WRENN ID
- quiet-stair-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- SU 767 782
- Coordinates
- 51.49842, -0.89562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower at Shiplake College, located approximately 90 metres north-west of the main building, was constructed around 1899 by architect Ernest George. It is built of brick with decorative flint panels and features a plain tile roof. The structure has a square plan with an octagonal stair turret. The ground floor has 20th-century doors, while the stair turret is topped with a hipped roof and has arched openings. Additionally, there is a dovecote located at the gable of the main roof.
Local climate
Shiplake College, Water Tower Approximately 90 Metres North West sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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