Torduff Reservoir Filtering Cistern, Torduff Road is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 July 2006. Cistern.

Torduff Reservoir Filtering Cistern, Torduff Road

WRENN ID
steep-window-jackdaw
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh South West MP: Dr Scott Arthur (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 July 2006
Type
Cistern
OS grid reference
NT 208 677
Coordinates
55.89628, -3.26719
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Torduff Reservoir Filtering Cistern, built around 1848, is a single-storey circular stone structure designed for filtering water. It features boxed timber eaves that overhang and a central ventilator with 16 sides, topped with a pointed finial. The exterior is made of finely pointed coursed droved ashlar, which includes a base course, a moulded eaves course, and advanced stone cills. There are four equally spaced 12-pane timber sash and case windows, which are protected by 20th-century grilles. The roof is covered with graduated slate.

Local climate

Torduff Reservoir Filtering Cistern, Torduff Road sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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