Water Tower is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 August 2007. Water tower.

Water Tower

WRENN ID
winter-passage-sorrel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 August 2007
Type
Water tower
OS grid reference
NT 743 359
Coordinates
55.61611, -2.40877
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This later 19th century water tower is a three-storey structure with a square plan and a piend roof. It features slender round-arched openings that are placed asymmetrically, along with a letterbox-style ventilator at the eaves. The building is constructed from coursed stugged ashlar and has raised quoins, as well as window and door margins. The entrance door is timber-boarded with iron studs, and the roof is covered with slate. Additionally, there are cast-iron rainwater goods.

Local climate

Water Tower receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 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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