Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1973. Water tower. 1 related planning application.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- high-paling-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Wellingborough and Rushden MP: Gen Kitchen (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 July 1973
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, Irthlingborough Road, Finedon, NN9 5EJ
- OS grid reference
- SP 925 718
- Coordinates
- 52.33655, -0.64382
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built around 1904, features red, yellow, and blue polychrome brickwork with a lead and plain-tile roof. It is an octagonal structure with five stages. The lower stage has pairs of cast-iron windows with shallow arch heads on alternate faces, while the next three stages have single windows with tall arch head surrounds. The upper stage is corbelled out and includes a central window on each face, framed by blank arcading. Large square buttresses at the corners rise to short square pinnacles. The decorative parapet is visible, but the roof itself is not. The elevation facing the road includes a two-storey gabled porch with a plain-tile roof. There is a large arch head entrance with glazed doors, above which are three square-headed windows and a gabled parapet. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Water Tower sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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