The Flag Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1967. Tower. 9 related planning applications.
The Flag Tower
- WRENN ID
- tangled-cinder-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1967
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Flag Tower, Farley
- OS grid reference
- SK 069 430
- Coordinates
- 52.98492, -1.89742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Flag Tower is an early 19th-century tower located in Alton Park, Farley. It is built from rock-faced ashlar with smooth-faced ashlar dressings and is designed in a castellated Gothic style. The tower has a square plan with cylindrical corner turrets and stands four storeys tall, featuring an off-set first floor, bands on the second and third floors, and a crenellated parapet with pseudo-machicolations. The design includes a single recessed bay flanked by the corner turrets, pointed windows with Gothic glazing bars and hood moulds, and slim rectangular loops in the turrets. The pointed first-floor door has three continuous orders and a hood mould, accessed by a flight of steps within a ground-floor forebuilding that has a central pointed entrance arch. This tower is part of the significant garden layout at Alton Towers, which is registered at Grade I on the HBMC Gardens Register.
Local climate
The Flag Tower receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- 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
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