Water Tower and Hydrant, About 60 Metres South of Church of St Leonard is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1984. Water tower.
Water Tower and Hydrant, About 60 Metres South of Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- fossil-screen-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1984
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- ST 800 573
- Coordinates
- 51.31499, -2.28787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 19th-century water tower located about 60 metres south of the Church of St Leonard in Farleigh Hungerford. It is constructed from coursed rubble Doulting stone and features a conical stone slate roof topped with a Bath stone, crocketed finial. The tower has a diameter of approximately 2.5 metres and stands 5 metres high. It includes three iron inspection plates and an iron depth indicator mechanism. The water tower was supplied by a river power-driven pump from a fresh water spring, using a 50 mm cast iron pipe, and was used until recently to provide domestic water to Farleigh Hungerford. Additionally, there is a cast iron hydrant column about 1 metre high, which has a fluted and domed top with a lion mask design.
Local climate
Water Tower and Hydrant, About 60 Metres South of Church of St Leonard receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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