Battlemented Look-Out Tower to the West End of Hedgemead Park is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 2010. Look-out tower.

Battlemented Look-Out Tower to the West End of Hedgemead Park

WRENN ID
buried-timber-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bath and North East Somerset
Constituency
Bath MP: Wera Hobhouse (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 2010
Type
Look-out tower
OS grid reference
ST 750 654
Coordinates
51.38793, -2.36053
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The look-out tower at the west end of Hedgemead Park was built in 1889 by T.B. Silcock. It is constructed from limestone ashlar at the parapet and rough ashlar for the tower, which features railings at the top. The tower has a three-quarter cylindrical plan and extends to the east side of a revetment wall that runs north to south through the park, serving as a substantial buttress to the wall. The base of the tower is approximately 4 meters in diameter and about 4 meters high. It has a thick battlemented parapet with a platband below and blind cross-loopholes beneath each merlon. Inside the parapet are simple straight railings. This tower is a romantically designed neo-baronial feature that enhances the park, which was established on the site of a significant landslide that damaged many houses, necessitating the construction of the revetment wall.

Local climate

Battlemented Look-Out Tower to the West End of Hedgemead Park receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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