Tower at Seacroft Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. Tower. 1 related planning application.
Tower at Seacroft Hospital
- WRENN ID
- woven-buttress-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds East MP: Richard Burgon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower at Seacroft Hospital, York Road, LS14 6UH
- OS grid reference
- SE 350 346
- Coordinates
- 53.80664, -1.46986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower at Seacroft Hospital is a water tower built between 1902 and 1904 by E.T. Hall, showcasing an Arts and Crafts influence. It is a tall, square-shaped red brick structure that tapers as it rises. The tower features a wide cornice and a parapet that ramps up at the corners. Below the parapet, there is a moulded cornice and segmentally-arched clock faces on each side, framed with terracotta. Surrounding the tower is a continuous iron-railed balcony, with low, wide segmentally-arched windows beneath. The lower portion of the tower has plain walls with only a few small windows.
Inside, there is a cast-iron spiral staircase located in the left corner, although the water tanks that once held up to 40,000 gallons for Seacroft and Killingbeck hospitals have been removed.
Historically, Seacroft Hospital was initially established in the grounds of the former Manston Hall as a temporary smallpox hospital in 1893. It was later extended in 1898 by Thomas Hewson, the City Engineer, to accommodate scarlet fever patients. The permanent hospital for scarlet fever, diphtheria, and enteric fever was constructed between 1902 and 1904.
Local climate
Tower at Seacroft Hospital receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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