Paddington Water Tower, Heritage water tower in Paddington, Australia.

Paddington Water Tower is a concrete structure at 16 Garfield Drive featuring an elevated tank supported by twelve reinforced columns. The design combines functional engineering with solid construction intended to serve elevated residential areas with reliable water supply.

Supplying water to higher parts of Paddington had long been difficult, and the Water Board spent 12 years securing the £12,000 needed for the tower. Built by day labour to the Board's own design, it was dedicated on 4 March 1927 and opened by board president Ernest James Theodore Manchester, fed from Enoggera Dam. At the time it was the most expensive single structure built in the Town of Ithaca.

The tower's name comes from the Paddington Heights estate it served, which local speaker J. J. Roberts called the "Dress Circle of Brisbane" at the 1927 opening. A turncock lived in a cottage built beside the tank shortly after, keeping it filled. The tower is probably Queensland's only reinforced concrete tank raised on concrete columns.

The site is accessible from the street, with its hilltop location making the structure visible from a distance. The spot works best as a walking visit and offers good views of the surrounding Paddington neighborhood.

The tower is probably the only elevated reinforced concrete water tank in Queensland, a circular tank carried on twelve columns and octagonal grids of haunched beams. It was built on a 529-square-metre allotment on Archibald's Hill, and a cottage was added beside it soon after opening so the turncock could live on site and keep the tank filled.