Gamekeeper's Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1983. Tower.
Gamekeeper's Tower
- WRENN ID
- tenth-glass-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1983
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Gamekeeper's Tower, Hobson's Lane, Over Kellet
- OS grid reference
- SD 541 713
- Coordinates
- 54.13594, -2.70387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gamekeeper's Tower is likely a shooting lodge built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and has a square plan with a projecting turret at the west end of the north wall. The building stands three storeys tall. The windows feature plain reveals and two-centred heads. The east wall has windows on the ground and second floors, while the south wall has windows on the ground and first floors. The west wall contains a window on the second floor. The turret's east wall has a narrow light with a pointed head on both the first and second floors, and a similar opening is found on the north side at ground level. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet. Attached to the west wall is a single-storey lean-to, which currently has no roof. This lean-to includes a window in its south wall with a pointed head and plain reveals, as well as a similar door in its north wall, which has been repaired with a concrete lintel.
Local climate
Gamekeeper's Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,360 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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