Round Tower at Ngr So 9971 0253 and Attached Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 July 1971. Landscape building.
Round Tower at Ngr So 9971 0253 and Attached Wall
- WRENN ID
- ragged-wall-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 July 1971
- Type
- Landscape building
- Address
- Round Tower at Ngr So 9971 0253 and Attached Wall, Cirencester
- OS grid reference
- SO 997 025
- Coordinates
- 51.72149, -2.00562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round Tower at the National Grid Reference SO 9971 0253 and its attached wall are landscape buildings located in Cirencester. They date from the early to mid-18th century, with an early 19th-century addition. The structure is made of coursed squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof of the tower is not visible, but there is an ashlar stack with an embattled top at the rear. The wing to the right features a stone slate roof with a hip to the left and an ashlar right-end stack, also with an embattled top.
The two-storey circular tower is designed in a neo-mediaeval style and has three unglazed lancet windows on the first floor, each surrounded by ashlar with small chamfers beneath hoodmoulds. The ground floor has two similar windows without hoodmoulds. The tower includes an ashlar plinth, a moulded string course above the first floor, a frieze, a scalloped cornice, and a coped parapet with mock arrow-slits in ashlar surrounds. The right wing has a single three-light timber window at the front and quoins at the right angle. A short section of screen wall with coping to the left conceals a projecting stair turret and the end of the lean-to at the rear from view on the front and left side. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Round Tower at Ngr So 9971 0253 and Attached Wall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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