Water Tower, Leverburgh, Harris is a Grade B listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1994. Water tower.
Water Tower, Leverburgh, Harris
- WRENN ID
- sheer-passage-poplar
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1994
- Type
- Water tower
- OS grid reference
- NG 013 872
- Coordinates
- 57.77548, -7.02545
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The water tower in Leverburgh, Harris, was built around 1920 for Lord Leverhulme's unsuccessful fisheries development project. It was likely meant for domestic use rather than industrial supply. The structure is made of ferro-concrete and features a drum tank elevated on stanchions, with struts and ties that converge at the center of the base.
Local climate
Water Tower, Leverburgh, Harris sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,590 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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