Naze Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. Navigation tower. 1 related planning application.
Naze Tower
- WRENN ID
- half-barrel-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Clacton MP: Nigel Farage (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- Navigation tower
- Address
- Naze Tower, the Naze, Frinton and Walton, CO14 8LE
- OS grid reference
- TM 264 235
- Coordinates
- 51.86444, 1.28814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Naze Tower is a navigation tower built in 1720 for Trinity House. It is constructed of plum-coloured brick and features an octagonal shape with three diminishing stages, supported by clasping buttresses at the corners. The upper stage, added in the 19th or 20th century, has a moulded brick plinth and a concrete plinth from 1979 below it. The third stage includes two round-headed window openings, one of which is now blocked, along with three windows above the second stage, two of which are also blocked. The second stage has two round-headed windows, and the first stage has a single window. The entrance features 20th-century double vertically boarded doors with a concrete lintel above. A lead plaque above the doorway indicates its construction by Trinity House in 1720.
Inside, the tower has several storeys connected by an iron spiral staircase. The top section has an iron framework. The tower was designed to work with Walton Hall Tower as a guide for vessels navigating through the Goldmer Gap, and it also included a light in Suffolk to assist in guiding vessels into the rivers along the Suffolk and Essex border.
Local climate
Naze 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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