Unnamed Drum Tower 50 Metres East of the Bridgegate is a Grade I listed building in the Cheshire West and Chester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 July 1955. A Medieval Tower.
Unnamed Drum Tower 50 Metres East of the Bridgegate
- WRENN ID
- swift-soffit-meadow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Cheshire West and Chester
- Constituency
- Chester North and Neston MP: Samantha Dixon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 July 1955
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Medieval
- OS grid reference
- SJ 407 658
- Coordinates
- 53.18641, -2.88869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The unnamed drum tower, located 50 metres east of the Bridgegate in Chester, is part of the city walls and is a Grade I listed structure. This outer half of the former drum tower likely dates from the 13th century and was converted into a raised promenade between 1702 and 1708. It has undergone repairs at various times, including a weak 19th-century mock crenellation. The tower is constructed from coursed red sandstone rubble and projects as a semicircle to the south from the wall, with its platform aligned at the level of the wall walk. This platform was lowered to its current level in 1876-1877.
Local climate
Unnamed Drum Tower 50 Metres East of the Bridgegate receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings