Hazelslack Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. Tower.
Hazelslack Tower
- WRENN ID
- vast-floor-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Hazelslack Tower, Beetham
- OS grid reference
- SD 476 788
- Coordinates
- 54.20239, -2.80437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hazelslack Tower is a Grade II listed building, likely a former solar block with a hall to the east that has since been demolished. It dates from the late 14th century and is constructed of roughly-coursed rubble. The tower has four storeys, although part of it has been demolished. The windows are scattered, with mostly loop lights on the ground floor and small square windows on the upper floors. On the west side, there is a two-light window featuring trefoiled lights in a square head at the third floor level. The east side has a large fireplace with a segmental head on the ground floor, along with a smaller fireplace above and remnants of the gable from the former adjoining building. There is an original doorway with a two-centred arched head in the return wall of the projecting part of the tower. Inside, the tower includes a cross-wall, various fireplaces—some with segmental heads—a base of an open stone stairway that becomes an enclosed circular stair above, and garderobes located in the south-west angle.
Local climate
Hazelslack Tower sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,440 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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