Trial Tower South of North Lodge and Stableblock is a Grade II listed building in the New Forest National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 May 1987. Tower.
Trial Tower South of North Lodge and Stableblock
- WRENN ID
- tenth-pillar-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- New Forest National Park
- Constituency
- New Forest East MP: Sir Julian Lewis (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 May 1987
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Trial Tower South of North Lodge and Stableblock, Barrows Lane, Sway
- OS grid reference
- SZ 279 968
- Coordinates
- 50.77087, -1.60446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The trial tower, built around 1880 for A.T.T. Peterson, is located south of the North Lodge and Stableblock. It is constructed of mass concrete in 'lifts' and features a square plan with four stages. The ground floor stage has high-set openings on each face, while the tall second stage contains two openings, and there is a central opening in the third stage. Moulded strings separate the stages, and there is a heavy cornice below the top stage. The tower is capped with two round-headed openings and a coping at the top. Notably, there is a large crack running down one face, which likely halted construction.
Local climate
Trial Tower South of North Lodge and Stableblock receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% 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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