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.

Water Tower

WRENN ID
keen-bronze-aspen
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, Palmerston Road
OS grid reference
SZ 112 921
Coordinates
50.72919, -1.8425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The water tower, built around 1869 for the Bournemouth and District Water Company, is a large structure made of brickwork featuring round arches. The bricks are arranged in alternating courses of reddish-brown stretchers and blue headers. It has a round-arched entrance and consists of three main storeys, with round-headed windows arranged in triplets on the ground and first floors, and in quartets on the second floor. The windows on the north and south sides are all blind. Above the ground and first floors, there are double dentil cornices, and a triple dentil main cornice with a projecting top crowns the building. A tank is located on the roof.

Local climate

Water Tower receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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