Hampton Court Tilt Yard Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. A Tudor Tower.
Hampton Court Tilt Yard Tower
- WRENN ID
- night-rubble-jet
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Tudor
- OS grid reference
- TQ 156 687
- Coordinates
- 51.40557, -0.33875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tilt Yard Tower at Hampton Court is an early 16th-century structure, built by Henry VIII, designed for observing tournaments. It features red brick construction and stands three storeys tall. The tower is one window wide, with an additional bay set back to the right. It has a castellated parapet with stone dressing and an arched window on the ground floor, which has been rebuilt later. This tower is the only remaining structure of the original five towers that once existed.
Local climate
Hampton Court Tilt Yard 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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