Watch Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. A Late C15 Watch tower.
Watch Tower
- WRENN ID
- inner-cinder-sedge
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- Watch tower
- Address
- Watch Tower, Church Lane, Lyddington
- OS grid reference
- SP 875 969
- Coordinates
- 52.56338, -0.70992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch Tower is a late 15th-century gazebo located on Lyddington Church Lane. It features the arms of John Russell, who was Bishop of Lincoln from 1480 to 1494. The structure is built from coursed ironstone rubble, with pale limestone quoins and dressings, and has a Collyweston slate roof.
This small octagonal tower stands two storeys high. The lower storey includes a passageway with chamfered four-centred arches, which turns a corner between Main Street and Church Lane. There is a blocked round window in a limestone surround with a pointed head. The upper storey has blocked windows on alternating sides, also with chamfered four-centred arches and cut spandrels. Above the west window, there is a square panel featuring blind tracery and a heraldic shield. Access to the tower is provided by a raised walkway along the adjacent wall, leading to an entrance with a chamfered four-centred arch.
Inside, the small upper chamber contains cupboard recesses situated between the windows. The Watch Tower is designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument No 180 and is under the guardianship of English Heritage.
Local climate
Watch Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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