St Leonards Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Teignbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1949. A Medieval Tower. 4 related planning applications.
St Leonards Tower
- WRENN ID
- sheer-gallery-amber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Teignbridge
- Constituency
- Newton Abbot MP: Martin Wrigley (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1949
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St Leonards Tower, Wolborough Street, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1JQ
- OS grid reference
- SX 857 712
- Coordinates
- 50.5294, -3.61263
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Leonard's Tower is a 15th-century tower that was part of a church, with the rest of the building demolished in 1836 for road widening. It now stands on an island site. The tower is constructed of squared Plymouth stone and features a pointed granite arch over a 20th-century plank door on the south-west elevation. The structure is slightly battered and consists of two stages, marked by moulded string courses, one of which is located below a battlemented parapet. The upper stage has two-light pointed-arched windows on each side and large clocks on the west and east sides. The north-east side shows remnants of the former nave's roof line and includes a pointed-arched recess with a small trefoil-headed window. At the base of this side, there is a granite plaque that reads: "This tower was refurbished in 1972-1973 by the people of Newton Abbot in memory of Councillor Arthur Claude Shobbrook, JP CA who died on July 17 July 1970."
Local climate
St Leonards Tower receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 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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