Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard is a Grade I listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. A C13 Detached tower.
Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard
- WRENN ID
- hollow-rood-barley
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- Detached tower
- OS grid reference
- SO 469 648
- Coordinates
- 52.27918, -2.77865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure is a detached tower located about 15 meters south of the Church of St Leonard. It likely dates from the 13th century and was restored in 1910. The tower is built of random rubble with some ashlar dressings and features a roof made of stone tiles and shingles. It has a square plan with walls on the ground floor that enclose the frame of the tower. Lean-to roofs are present on the stone walls, while the upper part of the tower is weatherboarded and features a range of seven pierced quatrefoils just below the pyramidal roof.
The entrance, located in the north wall, has a chamfered segmental pointed arch, and the boarded door is fitted with plain strap hinges. Simple slit windows are found in the other walls. Inside, the entire tower is supported by four massive corner posts that incline inwards and taper towards the top. The spaces between the posts are scissor-braced. There are empty mortices in the main posts, indicating that the outer wall may have originally been timber-framed. The restorers in the early 20th century bolted new braces onto the inside of the frame.
Local climate
Tower About 15 Metres South of Church of St Leonard receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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