Water Tank, Glenormiston House is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 March 2003. Water tank.
Water Tank, Glenormiston House
- WRENN ID
- sacred-parapet-bracken
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 March 2003
- Type
- Water tank
- OS grid reference
- NT 315 380
- Coordinates
- 55.63109, -3.088
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The water tank at Glenormiston House dates from the late 19th or early 20th century. It is constructed of brick and features an arched roof that is covered with turf.
On the west elevation, there is a segmental-arch design with paired brick voussoirs at the outer edge and a timber boarded entrance door. The other elevations consist of an arched mound that is covered with roofing felt, soil, and grass.
Inside, the tank is a deep rectangular structure over 8 feet deep, connected to inlet and outlet pipes.
Local climate
Water Tank, Glenormiston House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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