Brick Tower Shot Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. Industrial.
Brick Tower Shot Tower
- WRENN ID
- solitary-cinder-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Brick Tower Shot Tower, Crane Park
- OS grid reference
- TQ 128 728
- Coordinates
- 51.44335, -0.37704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Brick Tower, formerly listed as the Shot Tower, is a late 18th century or early 19th century structure located in Crane Park. This tapering brick tower is constructed in English bond and resembles a tower mill. It features a lead roof, with the door and lower windows adorned with painted arches, weatherboarded spandrels, and a stone keystone. The interior is derelict and lacks floors. The tower is surrounded by trees and is situated beside one of the streams into which the River Crane is divided by dams and sluices. This building was part of the old Hounslow Powder Mills, which are believed to be among the first gunpowder mills in England, dating back to the time of the Battle of Crecy in 1315. It is the only surviving structure from the mills and was previously misidentified as a Shot Tower; it may have actually served as a grinding mill.
Local climate
Brick Tower Shot Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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