No.2 Reservoir is a Grade II listed building in the Cheltenham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 2015. Reservoir.
No.2 Reservoir
- WRENN ID
- rusted-pewter-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheltenham
- Constituency
- Cheltenham MP: Max Wilkinson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 2015
- Type
- Reservoir
- OS grid reference
- SO 974 221
- Coordinates
- 51.89804, -2.03915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 2 Reservoir is an underground reservoir built in 1839 for the Cheltenham Water Works Company, designed by civil engineer James Walker. It has a capacity of 2 million gallons and is constructed from red brick made from clay excavated on the site, with a brick access chamber on the surface.
The reservoir is entirely underground, measuring 53.6 meters by 49.4 meters, with an internal height of 6 meters. It consists of seven parallel rectangular chambers featuring brick walls, shallow inverted-arched brick floors, and brick barrel-vaulted roofs. Each of the internal walls has seven arched openings that allow water to flow between the chambers.
Local climate
No.2 Reservoir receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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