Brick Built Water Tower in the Grounds of Digby Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1998. Water tower.
Brick Built Water Tower in the Grounds of Digby Hospital
- WRENN ID
- stony-window-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exmouth and Exeter East MP: David Reed (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1998
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Brick Built Water Tower in the Grounds of Digby Hospital, Woodwater Lane
- OS grid reference
- SX 954 911
- Coordinates
- 50.71061, -3.48179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower in the grounds of Digby Hospital is a brick structure built around 1885-1886, likely designed by R. Stark Wilkinson, the architect of the hospital. It is made of red brick and features moulded brick classical details. The tower has a rectangular shape with rounded corners and consists of four sides, each with six bays of arcades. These arcades are adorned with rubbed brick round arches, pilasters, moulded imposts, and a plinth. The cornices and coping project forward at the pilasters, which extend into the parapet. The open arcades create aisles around the central core of the building, supported by transverse arches.
Local climate
Brick Built Water Tower in the Grounds of Digby Hospital receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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