the norcot water tower, built at the end of the 19th century, is somewhat older than the more prominent tilehurst water tower. it is 50ft high, a grade ii listed building and since 2002 has been converted into a luxury apartment. norcot school was built in 1906. in its lifetime, it was both a senior and a junior school. it closed in 1989. like much of tilehurst, norcot hill was used for the extraction of clay for brickmaking. in the 1920s, s. e. collier's transported the clay via overhead cables to their main site in the dee road area of tilehurst. st george's church, reading was built on the north-eastern edge of norcot in 1886, largely to service the soldiers of the nearby brock barracks. norcot mission church was started in 1929 to serve the new norcot council estate. it started in a hut on land rented from the pulsometer engineering works. the church moved to a permanent building in brockley close in 1972. the post office is on the oxford road.