Grinlow Tower is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1987. Folly.
Grinlow Tower
- WRENN ID
- lost-belfry-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- High Peak
- Constituency
- High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1987
- Type
- Folly
- Address
- Grinlow Tower, Grin Low Road
- OS grid reference
- SK 053 717
- Coordinates
- 53.24271, -1.92056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grinlow Tower, also known as Solomon's Temple, is a folly built in 1840 for Samuel Mycock. It was rebuilt in 1894 and restored in 1987. The tower is constructed from rubble limestone with tooled gritstone dressings and has a circular plan. The exterior features two storeys, with a round-headed doorway accessed by four steps. Impost and sill bands connect to seven round-headed openings with keystones. Above the doorway is a blind circular opening, with seven additional blind round-headed openings linked by a chamfered sill band. The structure has ashlar courses leading to the eaves, a moulded eaves band, and battlements. Inside, there is a stone spiral staircase with an iron handrail. The tower was originally built to provide work for the town's unemployed.
Local climate
Grinlow Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Number 87 and Attached Garden Walls
- Number 85 and Attached Outbuilding and Garden Walls
- Seven Ways (Number 1) and Somersby (Number 3)
- Bath House
- 4 Bollards at South West End of Broad Walk
- Number 24 and the Argyle (Number 25)
- Church of St Anne
- Carlisle House
- Walls and Gates to Milnthorp Homes
- St Mary's Church War Memorial, Buxton