Round Tower in Priory Grounds is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 October 1985. Tower.
Round Tower in Priory Grounds
- WRENN ID
- woven-spindle-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Lewes MP: James MacCleary (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 October 1985
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Round Tower in Priory Grounds, Cockshut Road, Lewes
- OS grid reference
- TQ 413 095
- Coordinates
- 50.86797, 0.00674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Round Tower in the Priory Grounds is a 19th-century structure, possibly associated with a railway underpass. It is built of flint with stone dressings, featuring some coursing of stone, especially at the plinth level. The tower has a crenellated parapet and a doorway on the southeast side that has a boarded door. Several windows are blocked with brick.
Local climate
Round Tower in Priory Grounds receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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