Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Water tower.

Water Tower

WRENN ID
haunted-cinder-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Elmbridge
Constituency
Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 November 1984
Type
Water tower
Address
Water Tower, Old Avenue
OS grid reference
TQ 085 626
Coordinates
51.35247, -0.4424
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The water tower, built in 1914, features a red brick plinth with brown brick above and stone dressings. It has a plain tiled polygonal roof topped with a drum finial. The tower consists of four stages and is round in shape, with round-arched, louvred windows set in stone block surrounds placed irregularly around its structure. To the left, there is a circular turret on a stone corbelled base, which is tile hung on the upper part. At the top of the tower, there is a circular wooden gallery supported by braced main posts on stone corbels, featuring an arched roof and a wooden railing. The center of the tower has a planked door in an arched stone surround, with a date plaque above it. Additionally, there is a single-storey, flat-roofed addition to the left.

Local climate

Water Tower 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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