Sighting Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 April 1988. Sighting tower.
Sighting Tower
- WRENN ID
- idle-gargoyle-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds North West MP: Katie White (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 April 1988
- Type
- Sighting tower
- Address
- Sighting Tower, Moorland Road, Bramhope
- OS grid reference
- SE 247 425
- Coordinates
- 53.87823, -1.62514
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sighting Tower, built around 1845 for the construction of the Bramhope railway tunnel, is a Grade II listed structure associated with the Leeds-Thirsk Railway. It is made of coursed squared sandstone and has a tall cylindrical shape, approximately 2 metres in diameter. Near the top, there are four narrow vertical-rectangular openings, and the tower features a flat coping.
Local climate
Sighting Tower receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- 4 Tunnel ventilation shaft to east of number 9, Holmwood Drive
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