Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1987. A 19th century Water tower. 1 related planning application.
Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair)
- WRENN ID
- sacred-minaret-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Taunton and Wellington MP: Gideon Amos (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1987
- Type
- Water tower
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair), Rockwell Green, Wellington, TA21 9BT
- OS grid reference
- ST 126 200
- Coordinates
- 50.97297, -3.24597
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 19th-century water tower, one of a pair, located in Rockwell Green, Wellington. The tower is constructed of red brick in English bond, with a black brick plinth and yellow brick bands, and features a steel water tower. It is a circular structure with four storeys, tapering on the ground and first floors. It includes a plinth with a stepped, sloping top, a deep stepped cornice, and carries a water tank topped with a swept conical, steel-plated roof and a weather vane.
On the north side, the tower has a round-arched, battened board door with decorative hinges. Above this are a round-arched opening with a stone sill, an oculus, and another round-arched opening, louvred. The south-east and south-west sides have similar fenestration, with round-arched openings, though the lower openings are blind. The south-west side includes a flat-arched doorway with an iron-bracketed platform, from which an inspection ladder rises up the side of the tank. The water tank has riveted panels and riveted posts supporting the roof, with a gap between the roof and the top of the tank. A measure is located on the north side of the tank.
Local climate
Water Tower (Easternmost of Pair) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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