Water Tower is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1987. Water tower.
Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- muted-ember-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Wetherby and Easingwold MP: Sir Alec Shelbrooke (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1987
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, the Avenue, Nun Monkton
- OS grid reference
- SE 511 578
- Coordinates
- 54.01395, -1.22029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a water tower built in the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of brick in English bond and has a square plan. The building is two storeys high with a single bay. At the base, there is a plinth and two steps leading up to a double-leaf board door that is set beneath a segmental arch with a band above it. On the first floor, there is a segmental-arched dummy window with a band above. The other facades feature 12-pane sash windows on the ground floor and dummy windows on the first floor, all of which are also beneath segmental arches. A plain parapet at the top conceals the roof. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Water Tower receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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