Martello Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1950. Military tower.
Martello Tower
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pavement-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1950
- Type
- Military tower
- Address
- Martello Tower, Kirby Road, Frinton and Walton
- OS grid reference
- TM 250 220
- Coordinates
- 51.8513, 1.26676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Martello Tower, located off Kirby Road in Walton-on-the-Naze, was built around 1810-1812 and is now used as an entertainment hall. It is constructed of brick, with some areas showing remnants of rendering, and features stone dressings around the windows, door, and coping. There is a stone cill beneath a vertical slit in the coping, which is supported by a corbel. The first-floor doorway has rusticated jambs, a segmental head with a keystone, and a stone chute below the cill level. Access to the building is provided by a 20th-century boarded door, which is reached via a 20th-century external stairway. At door height, there are four windows with rusticated jambs and segmental heads, each featuring keystones, two mullions, and a central transom. The ground floor has 20th-century double doors. This tower is one of the largest among the eleven Clacton Defence Towers.
Local climate
Martello Tower receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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