Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1987. Water tower.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- last-gutter-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1987
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, the Village, Silpho, North Yorkshire
- OS grid reference
- SE 965 921
- Coordinates
- 54.31558, -0.51795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower is an early to mid-19th century structure located in Silpho. It is built from coursed rubble limestone and features a plinth, dressed quoins, and a slate roof. The tower has two stages and stands approximately 10 metres high. It has heavy plank doors at both stages, which are hung with iron hinges and topped with roughly tooled lintels. The roof is pitched. The tower was in use until around 1970.
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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