The Tower, (Including Boundary Walls and Piers) is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1983. Water tower. 1 related planning application.
The Tower, (Including Boundary Walls and Piers)
- WRENN ID
- deep-iron-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- Weston-super-Mare MP: Dan Aldridge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1983
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- The Tower, (Including Boundary Walls and Piers), Shrubbery Avenue, Weston-Super-Mare
- OS grid reference
- ST 315 622
- Coordinates
- 51.35529, -2.98442
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower, including boundary walls and piers, is a mid-19th century structure that originally served as a water tower for Villa Rosa and its estate. It is built from random sandstone rubble with freestone dressings. The tower is octagonal and has three stages, topped with a castellated parapet featuring blind cross loops and two-light windows set in pointed niches. Animal heads are positioned at the corners of the tower. There is a blocked doorway that leads into an annexe.
Local climate
The Tower, (Including Boundary Walls and Piers) receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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