Laura's Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. Tower.
Laura's Tower
- WRENN ID
- muted-arch-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Laura's Tower, Castle Gates, Shrewsbury
- OS grid reference
- SJ 494 128
- Coordinates
- 52.71064, -2.74914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laura's Tower is a tower built as a folly on the castle motte around 1790 by Thomas Telford. It is constructed from coursed and squared red sandstone and features a conical copper roof. The tower is octagonal and consists of a single storey above a basement. A double curved external staircase leads to a roll moulded, two-centred arched doorway, with another arched doorway at ground level between the arms of the staircase. The upper windows are wide lancets, and there are a series of arrow slits above. An embattled parapet is supported by corbels. There is a possibility that the base of an earlier tower exists on the site below. The tower was built for Laura, the daughter of Sir William Pulteney, to serve as a summer house.
Local climate
Laura's Tower receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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