The Tower at Ruxley Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 July 1989. Tower. 7 related planning applications.
The Tower at Ruxley Towers
- WRENN ID
- seventh-pinnacle-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 July 1989
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Tower at Ruxley Towers, Ruxley Ridge, Claygate, KT10 0HA
- OS grid reference
- TQ 164 631
- Coordinates
- 51.35555, -0.32914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower at Ruxley Towers is a tower, dating back to around 1870 and built for Lord Foley. It is now part of an office building. The tower is stuccoed with a concealed roof. It is an octagonal structure with five stages, featuring a taller, octagonal stair tower on the north-east side. The design is in the 15th-century Gothic style. It has square-headed windows with hood-moulds, two-light windows on the upper stages of the main tower and one-light windows on the stair tower, and looped arrow slits at the top of the stair tower. The tower has corbelled embattled parapets, with roll-moulded coping, the main tower parapet being fenestrated, and includes dragon gargoyles. A segmental-arched doorway is located next to the stair tower, with larger windows on the ground floor and an oriel window on the south-west side of the first floor. The remainder of the building is not considered to be of special architectural or historic interest.
Local climate
The Tower at Ruxley Towers 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2012
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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