Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome is a Grade II listed building in the Salford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1987. Air traffic control tower. 4 related planning applications.

Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome

WRENN ID
winter-frieze-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Salford
Constituency
Worsley and Eccles MP: Michael Wheeler (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1987
Type
Air traffic control tower
Address
Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome, Liverpool Road, M30 7SA
OS grid reference
SJ 743 971
Coordinates
53.47083, -2.38719
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome is an air traffic control tower built around 1937. It is constructed of brick with reinforced concrete roofs. The structure features a three-stage octagonal tower that rises from a single-storey podium, which has small radiating wings at each of its four corners. The podium is topped with a coped parapet above a soldier course and includes various doors and windows with glazing bars. The tower's upper stage is glazed and has a concrete balcony with steel railings. Access to the tower is provided by an external reinforced concrete dogleg stair. Barton Aerodrome was the first municipal airport in the world when it opened in 1930, and the control tower was reported in the press in 1937 as "the first air traffic control station."

Local climate

Control Tower at Barton Aerodrome sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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