Water Tower, Schoolbrae, Garmouth is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 August 1981. Water tower.
Water Tower, Schoolbrae, Garmouth
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 20 August 1981
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- NJ 338 646
- Coordinates
- 57.6672, -3.10998
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The Water Tower at Schoolbrae in Garmouth is an exceptional circular two-stage structure built between 1898 and 1901 by consulting engineers Jenkins and Marr. It features a slated conical roof and is notable for being one of Scotland's earliest reinforced concrete buildings. The tower was designed to supply gravity-fed water from a reservoir on the Fochabers Burn to the villages of Garmouth and Kingston, utilizing an unusual tandem chamber arrangement within the tower.
The tower is prominently located on high ground above Garmouth village. It has two doorways on the south side; the lower entrance, which was at semi-basement level, has been sealed since 1990, while the upper chamber rises through the wallhead within a piended dormer. Access to the interior was not possible in 2008 due to the sealing of the lower entrance. Further details about the upper section can be found in a 2006 report by Linn and Archibald. The tower was decommissioned in 1988.
Local climate
Water Tower, Schoolbrae, Garmouth sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 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 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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