Lee Tower is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Tower.
Lee Tower
- WRENN ID
- noble-pinnacle-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Lee Tower, Marystow
- OS grid reference
- SX 443 840
- Coordinates
- 50.63523, -4.20234
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lee Tower is a Grade II listed structure, likely used as a lookout for hunting parties and to command views of the Coryton Estate. It dates from the early to mid 19th century and is constructed of stone rubble with buff brick dressings. The tower is a battlemented, two-stage circular structure that is heated on both floors and features a projecting rectangular stack that is disguised as a buttress.
The tower has a brick-capped plinth and a brick string course located below the battlemented parapet. Access is provided by three steps leading up to a cambered arched doorway, which has brick voussoirs and flush brick jambs. Above this doorway, there is a window with a flat brick arch and flush brick jambs, although the glazing is no longer present. On the southeast side, the tower includes one ground floor window and two first floor windows, all with similar brick dressings and granite sills, with no glazing remaining.
Inside, the inner walls are lined with brick, but the floor of the upper stage and the stairs are missing. The fireplace on the first floor remains intact.
Local climate
Lee Tower sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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