Navigation Tower at Walton Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1950. A C18 Tower. 5 related planning applications.
Navigation Tower at Walton Hall
- WRENN ID
- outer-glass-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1950
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Navigation Tower at Walton Hall, Old Hall Lane, Frinton and Walton, CO14 8LF
- OS grid reference
- TM 262 236
- Coordinates
- 51.86543, 1.28492
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century navigation tower, incorporating a dwelling, is attached to a derelict house at Walton Hall, Walton-on-the-Naze. The tower is constructed of brick, mostly plastered. It is a tall square building with a flat roof and a chimney stack to the west wall, likely comprising three storeys. It has two windows on the upper storey of the east wall, and single windows on the north and west walls. The tower was originally used as a lead light, serving in conjunction with Naze Tower to guide vessels through the Goldmer Gap. It is depicted on a map by Richard Blome from 1673, which itself was based on earlier maps by Saxon (1576) and Norden (1594). The tower block is clearly visible on the Chapman and Andre map of 1777. Due to the presence of barbed wire, viewing of the tower was limited during a recent survey.
Local climate
Navigation Tower at Walton Hall 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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