Grimston Tower is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1987. Water tower.
Grimston Tower
- WRENN ID
- little-chancel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1987
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- SE 492 408
- Coordinates
- 53.86128, -1.25218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grimston Tower is a water tower built around 1840 by Decimus Burton for the second Lord Howden. It is constructed from tooled magnesian limestone and features a lead roof. The tower has a square base that tapers to an octagonal top and is designed in an Egyptian style with four stages. At the base, there is a stepped plinth and a side entrance that consists of an eight-fielded-panel tapered door, which retains some decorative ironwork on the top two panels. The entrance is framed by a pedimented ashlar door-case, with a lintel that features a mask. The other sides of the tower have window openings with moulded sills, all within similar surrounds that do not have masks. The first stage has a moulded band, and there is a sill band as well. Each face has ten-pane casements. The second stage includes a moulded band and a round-arched window opening with a moulded sill, along with an oculus above. A modillion cornice runs around the top, leading to an octagonal cupola topped with a conical roof. Inside, there is a spiral staircase.
Local climate
Grimston Tower receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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