The Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Tower.

The Tower

WRENN ID
calm-portal-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1982
Type
Tower
Address
The Tower, Plashett Park, Little Horsted
OS grid reference
TQ 460 163
Coordinates
50.92805, 0.07723
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Tower is a 18th-century square building located in Plashette Park, formerly part of the estate of Viscount Gage of Firle Place, situated a few miles to the southeast. This structure originally served as a verderer's tower for signaling to another tower on the hill east of Firle Place. The tower stands three storeys high and features one window, with a flat roof and tile-hung exterior. Adjacent to it is a later addition, also square but only two storeys tall, constructed of red brick with a hipped slate roof and one window. Both sections have round-headed windows.

Local climate

The Tower receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% 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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