Craigend Water Tower is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 October 2013. 1 related planning application.
Craigend Water Tower
- WRENN ID
- vast-panel-thrush
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow North East MP: Maureen Burke (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 October 2013
- Address
- Craigend Water Tower, G33 5BH
- OS grid reference
- NS 653 665
- Coordinates
- 55.87355, -4.15387
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Garthamlock Water Tower consists of two large, circular-plan, reinforced-concrete water towers that share a similar design but differ in height. They are prominently situated next to each other on elevated ground in a suburban area to the east of Glasgow.
The Garthamlock Water Tower was designed by Frank A Macdonald and Partners for Glasgow Corporation between 1953 and 1956, and built by Holst and Company Ltd from 1956 to 1958. It features 24 laterally unsupported cylindrical columns that rise to 100 feet. The cylindrical tank measures 23 feet in height and has a capacity of 1 million gallons, with seven equally spaced band courses. There is a hexagonal-plan central access column with moulded margins around the openings, which were infilled in 2012. A metal door is located at the ground level, and there are internal metal stairs leading to the rooftop.
The Craigend Water Tower, built around 1966 for the Lower Clyde Water Board, has 12 fin-like supporting columns that taper towards the ground and stand at 40 feet tall. Its cylindrical tank features four equally spaced band courses and regularly disposed rectangular insets at the lower course. The central column is dodecagonal (12-sided) and panelled. It also has a metal access door at ground level and internal stairs that rise to the rooftop.
Local climate
Craigend Water Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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- Garthamlock Water Tower
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- HMP Barlinnie, A Hall
- HMP Barlinnie, B Hall
- HMP Barlinnie, former infirmary and store
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