Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Water tower. 3 related planning applications.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- winter-tallow-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Seafield Road, BH6 3EU
- OS grid reference
- SZ 141 917
- Coordinates
- 50.72492, -1.80047
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built around 1875 for the Bournemouth and District Water Company, is made entirely of bright red brick and stands out in the Southbourne skyline. It features a plinth with roll moulding and narrow round-arched slits that are placed randomly on all sides. The tower has a machicolated cornice and battlements, along with corbelled corner tourelles topped with conical spirelets that appear to be covered with metal sheeting. The roof of the tower is hipped and tiled. It is located in Seafield Pleasure Gardens.
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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