Water Tower, 135m north-east of Lytes Cary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. Water tower.
Water Tower, 135m north-east of Lytes Cary
- WRENN ID
- iron-arch-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Water tower
- Address
- Water Tower, 135m north-east of Lytes Cary, Ilchester Road, Kingsdon, Somerton, the Charltons, TA11 7HU
- OS grid reference
- ST 534 266
- Coordinates
- 51.03711, -2.66546
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The water tower, built around 1934 for Sir Walter Jenner, is located 135 meters northeast of Lytes Cary. Constructed from local lias stone that is cut and squared, it features an internal brick facing and is topped with a conical roof made of stone slates.
The tower has a circular plan and includes a base plinth and four offset buttresses that rise nearly to the full height of the wall, along with an eaves cornice. Each buttress is capped with two dressed Ham stone stones. On the east side, which faces away from the house, there is a boarded and studded oak door. To the right of the door is a three-light casement window with leaded lights, both set in voussoired segmental-arched openings. The roof is topped with a timber and stone conical upstand for birds, supported by timber columns that create an opening into the roof, and is crowned with a weathervane shaped like a galloping horse.
The interior was not inspected in 2013, but it is noted that the walls are faced with limewashed brick, and the concrete floor has several holes and channels. The roof space features a timber boarded floor and contains a 30,000 litre concrete water tank, which is supported by two concrete beams and supplied by a borehole. The roof structure is supported by an oak wallplate and consists of principal rafters, purlins, and common rafters.
Local climate
Water Tower, 135m north-east of Lytes Cary receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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