The Water Wheel is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1973. Water wheel.
The Water Wheel
- WRENN ID
- western-corridor-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Runnymede and Weybridge MP: Dr Ben Spencer (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1973
- Type
- Water wheel
- Address
- The Water Wheel, Painshill Park, Elmbridge
- OS grid reference
- TQ 089 598
- Coordinates
- 51.3274, -0.43741
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Water Wheel is a water wheel built around 1830 by Bramer and Co. It features a timber frame on a brick plinth, with a weatherboard wall. The pentice roof at the rear has collapsed. The cast iron upright water wheel is approximately 20 feet in diameter and includes a spindle and gear wheels at the rear, along with cast iron beams.
Local climate
The Water Wheel sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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