Old Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1985. A Victorian Tower. 1 related planning application.
Old Tower
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-step-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1985
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Old Tower, Bolton Road, Silsden
- OS grid reference
- SE 049 486
- Coordinates
- 53.93416, -1.92619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Tower is a survey tower built between 1854 and 1860. It is constructed from coursed dressed rubble and has a circular shape with a battered base. The eastern face features a blocked doorway and a single lancet window above it. At the top, there are four rectangular windows, and it likely contains a spiral staircase. This tower was used in the construction of the Barden Aqueduct and is a prominent feature in the landscape.
Local climate
Old 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
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