Saxonbury Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1993. Observation tower, folly. 3 related planning applications.
Saxonbury Tower
- WRENN ID
- small-basalt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1993
- Type
- Observation tower, folly
- Address
- Saxonbury Tower, Rotherfield, TN3 9JA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 577 329
- Coordinates
- 51.0742, 0.25087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Saxonbury Tower is an observation tower or folly, dated 1828 above the doorcase. It is part of a series of follies built for the Nevill estate. The tower is circular and consists of five stages, tapering towards the top. It is constructed of brown header bond brickwork on a tooled sandstone base, featuring Roman cement pseudo-machicolations at the parapet and roll-moulded bands between the floors. The tower has a conical iron roof, which is said to have been covered in copper at one time. It includes arrowslit windows with internally splayed embrasures. The doorcase is cambered arched and displays the date 1828 in shields on either side, along with a central coronet featuring the initials H and A. The door was missing at the time of the survey. Inside, there is a sandstone spiral staircase, although sections of the first and second stages were missing at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Saxonbury 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 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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