The Tower is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1949. Navigation daymark.
The Tower
- WRENN ID
- heavy-copper-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1949
- Type
- Navigation daymark
- Address
- The Tower, Kingswear
- OS grid reference
- SX 903 502
- Coordinates
- 50.34221, -3.54254
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower is a navigation daymark (beacon) located on Froward Point, built in 1864. This 80-foot high structure is made of slate rubble and has an octagonal shape with sharply battered walls. The top is truncated, and there are tall, narrow pointed-head openings on each side at the base, creating eight stilted piers. It was constructed as a navigational aid by the Dart Harbour Commissioners.
Local climate
The Tower receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 2 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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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