Bateman's Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Tendring local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 1987. Tower.
Bateman's Tower
- WRENN ID
- calm-roof-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tendring
- Constituency
- Harwich and North Essex MP: Sir Bernard Jenkin (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1987
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Bateman's Tower, Promenade Way, Brightlingsea, CO7 0HH
- OS grid reference
- TM 076 161
- Coordinates
- 51.80576, 1.01078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bateman's Tower is a tower built around 1880 for John Bateman. It is constructed from plastered cement blocks on a raft and has an octagonal shape with two storeys. The tower features two-centred arched windows on alternating faces, except for the north face, which has a two-centred arched doorway with a vertically boarded door fitted with strap hinges. Most windows are now blocked, except for the first-floor window facing the sea, which has a small paned cast iron casement.
Originally used as a folly and bathing house, it is believed that the tower was intended to serve as a lighthouse, although plans for a port in the area were never realized.
Local climate
Bateman's Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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