Knowle Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Bristol, City of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 March 1977. Water tower. 8 related planning applications.

Knowle Water Tower

WRENN ID
winding-plinth-jackdaw
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bristol, City of
Constituency
Bristol East MP: Kerry McCarthy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 March 1977
Type
Water tower
Address
Knowle Water Tower, Talbot Road, BS3 2NN
OS grid reference
ST 610 706
Coordinates
51.43381, -2.5623
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Knowle Water Tower is a water tower built in 1905 for Bristol Waterworks. It is constructed from red brick with stone dressings and features a slate pyramidal roof. The tower is designed in a square Gothic style and stands three storeys tall with a two-window range. The second floor has an overhanging header tank, arcaded machicolations, five arrow slits set in a recessed arcade, and a crenellated parapet. Below this, deep supports on weathered plinths create two blind lancet arches with hoodmoulds, which contain small lancet windows with metal frames and interlacing heads on the ground and first floors. A date pad on the tower reads "BWW 1906."

Local climate

Knowle Water Tower receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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