Water Tower at West Park Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Epsom and Ewell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 May 1988. Water tower. 6 related planning applications.
Water Tower at West Park Hospital
- WRENN ID
- fallen-dormer-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epsom and Ewell
- Constituency
- Epsom and Ewell MP: Helen Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 May 1988
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower at West Park Hospital, West Park Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 184 613
- Coordinates
- 51.33904, -0.30032
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, designed in 1909 and built between 1913 and 1921, was created by Clifford Smith for the London County Council as part of the West Park Hospital complex. Constructed of brown brick in irregular Flemish bond, with red brick dressings, the tower is six storeys high and has a Welsh slate roof. The design features narrow, eight-pane sashes set within flat red brick arches topped with tall, narrow keystones, and metal straps. At the top, corbelled balconies project, each with round-arched, small-pane glazed doors. The roof sweeps outwards. A tall, battered chimney at the southwest corner includes a central pilaster on each side, a stone cornice, and semicircular pediments below a stone, iron-banded top section. Ancillary buildings at the base of the tower are not of special interest. The tower’s interior houses three large water tanks with a combined capacity of 25,000 gallons, supported by a solid brick base.
Local climate
Water Tower at West Park Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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