Hartshead Pike Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Tower.
Hartshead Pike Tower
- WRENN ID
- keen-loggia-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Hartshead Pike Tower, Mossley
- OS grid reference
- SD 960 024
- Coordinates
- 53.51836, -2.0609
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hartshead Pike Tower is a tower built in 1863 by John Eaton, constructed from hammer-dressed stone. It features a circular shape with a steep conical roof. The door on the west side has a shouldered head, and above it are inscribed stones that read, "This pike was rebuilt by public contribution 1751 and re-erected by public subscription to commemorate the marriage of HRH Albert Edward Prince of Wales to HRH the Princess Alexandra and to restore the ancient landmark of Hartshead Pike." The tower includes cusped lancet window openings, corbelled eaves, dormer roof lights with cusped openings, and stepped gables.
Local climate
Hartshead Pike Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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